The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 28

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"[The land in the New World] is a marvel;the mountains and hills,and plains,and fields,and land,so beautiful and rich for planting and sowing,for breeding of cattle of all sorts,for building of towns and villages…there are many spiceries,and great mines of gold and other metals. The people of this island,and of all the others I have found and seen,or not seen,all go naked,men and women,just as their mothers bring them forth….as soon as I arrived in the Indies,in the first island that I found,I took some of them by force to the intent they should learn [our speech] and give me information of what there was in those parts."
Letter from Christopher Columbus to Luis de Santángel,1493
-European conquest of the Americas flourished in this period for all of the following reasons except?

• A) The introduction of widespread and deadly epidemics
• B) Cultural and linguistic differences between Europeans and natives
• C) Technological inferiority of Native Americans
• D) Sophisticated and advanced cultures in pre-contact America which had adapted to diverse environments

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