Use the Passage Below to Answer All Parts of the Question

question 65

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Use the passage below to answer all parts of the question that follows.
"Europeans were increasingly accustomed to failures of restraints in warfare during the religious wars that engulfed vast areas from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. Cities in the conflict zones of the Dutch Revolt, the French Wars, the Thirty Years' War, and the English Civil Wars could suffer catastrophic violence as the most extreme applications of "the law of the siege" became normal. European soldiers, who were often underpaid, became habituated to pillaging and burning towns that attempted to resist them. Massacres of inhabitants and executions of civic leaders followed the end of many sieges due to the brutal conditions of early modern European warfare and the excessive soldiers participating in religious warfare.
"Strong religious motivations often underlay the atrocities committed by the European combatants who fought in colonial wars."
Brian Sandberg, "Beyond Encounters: Religion, Ethnicity, and Violence in the Early Modern
Atlantic World, 1492-1700," 2006
(A). Identify ONE example in the Americas where "the law of the siege" led to extreme violence against the people of a conquered city.
(B). Identify and explain ONE specific example in Europe where "strong religious motivation" underlay violence against people of a different religion.
(C). Identify and explain ONE example in a different region of the world or an earlier period in time where "strong religious motivations" underlay the violent treatment of people of a different religion.

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