By the End of the Seventeenth Century, What Best Characterized

question 44

Multiple Choice

By the end of the seventeenth century, what best characterized the role of Europeans in Asia?

• A) European colonists had seized several substantial Asian territories.
• B) The Dutch had displaced the Portuguese and English as the sole European presence in Asia.
• C) Europeans in Asia were primarily missionaries, who lacked commercial interests.
• D) Europeans held a few coastal enclaves and had not significantly transformed Asian trade.

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Definitions:

Cross Bridge

A myosin projection on a muscle cell that connects with actin to contract muscle fibers, fundamental in muscle contraction.

Opposite Direction

Referring to a movement, orientation, or action that is directly contrary or reverse to another.

Creatine Phosphate

A high-energy reserve molecule in muscles and the brain that donates phosphate to ADP to regenerate ATP during the first seconds of intense work.

ATP

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is a complex organic chemical that provides energy to drive many processes in living cells.