What Was One of the Special Forms of Assistance Performed

question 25

Multiple Choice

What was one of the special forms of assistance performed by the colonial mestizos?

• A) They paid taxes and helped the Catholic Church with the Inquisition.
• B) They worked in the silver mines when no one else would.
• C) They served as links between the Indian and Spanish populations.
• D) They attended universities and brought their learning back to their homelands.
• E) They would become military officers and alleviate manpower shortages for the Spanish.

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Price Elasticity

A measure of the responsiveness of quantity demanded or supplied to changes in price.

Price Elasticity

An indicator of the sensitivity of consumer demand for a product to variations in its price, demonstrating how significantly the quantity of the good demanded changes in response to price fluctuations.

Quantity Supplied

The quantity of a product or service that manufacturers are prepared to offer for sale at a certain price during a defined time frame.

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A characteristic of a good or service whose demand does not significantly change with a change in its price.