The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

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Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"In 1564 approximately three hundred Huguenots - French Protestants - built a colony they called Fort de la Caroline in Timucua country,near present-day Jacksonville,Florida. This intrusion did not go unnoticed by the Spaniards who claimed la Florida.Within a year,adelantado [nobleman] Pedro Mendez de Aviles established a post at St.Augustine and marched his troops forty miles to the north to slaughter the Frenchmen,whom he regarded not only as trespassers but as vile heretics. Thus began a Spanish occupation of strategic spots in the southeast that would last for nearly two hundred years."
Daniel Richter,Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America,2001
-The events described by Richter most directly illustrate which of the following developments of the sixteenth century?

• A) Spanish traders often partnered with West Africans to recruit slave labor.
• B) Indian labor was used to support plantation agriculture.
• C) European nations competed for new sources of wealth in the Atlantic world.
• D) Changing technology drove economic development in Europe and the Americas.

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