The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

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The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"The early discourse of the New World then is full of questions that cannot be asked or answers that cannot be understood. 'Due to the lack of language,' complains Verrazzano,'we were unable to find out by signs or gestures how much religious faith these people we found possessed.' Canoes of Indians,Cartier writes,'came after our long-boat dancing and showing many signs of joy,and of their desire to be friends,saying to us in their language: Napou tou daman asurtat,and other words,we did not understand…And seeing that no matter how much we signed to them,they would not go back,we shot off over their heads two small cannon.'"
Stephen Greenblatt,Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World,1991
-The events described by Greenblatt illustrate which of the following Atlantic World developments?

• A) Increased cooperation between racial groups in the Americas
• B) Decreased European support for colonization of the Americas
• C) Population increases in native societies
• D) Limited European understandings of native cultures

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