The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 47

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 conflict described in this excerpt was made more intense by the

• A) potential wealth to be made from control of territory in the New World.
• B) rise of the Columbian Exchange.
• C) demise of feudalism in Europe.
• D) growth of the Atlantic slave trade.

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Definitions:

Sporangia

Specialized structures in fungi and plants where spores are produced and stored for reproduction.

Mycelium

The mass of branched, thread-like filaments that make up the vegetative part of a fungus, allowing for nutrient absorption.

Hyphae

Long, branching filamentous structures of fungi, through which they absorb nutrients from their environment.

Zygomycota

A phylum of fungi characterized by their production of zygospores during sexual reproduction.