The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 42

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"In the middle of the fifteenth century,Europe,Africa,and the Americas came together,creating-among other things-a new economy.At the center of that economy was the plantation,an enterprise dedicated to the production of exotic commodities-the most prominent being sugar-for a distant market.The sugar plantation,which first developed in the Mediterranean,was an enormously complex unit of production requiring the mobilization of vast amounts of capital,the development of new technologies (agricultural,industrial,and maritime) ,the invention of management techniques,and-because sugar production was extraordinarily labor intensive-the employment of huge numbers of workers."
Historian Ira Berlin,"The Discovery of the Americas and the Transatlantic Slave Trade"
-One conclusion the passage suggests is that

• A) Europeans exploited both natural and human resources to achieve their goals in the new world.
• B) Europeans were justified in their attitudes of superiority over natives.
• C) Europeans did not exploit natural resources to achieve their goals in the Americas.
• D) Europeans could not find suitable labor systems to harvest natural resources in the Americas.

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Definitions:

Unilateral Mistake

A mistake made by only one of the parties about the terms of a contract.

Duress

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Embezzlement

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