Europeans Extrapolated ________ from the New World in Order to Enter

question 12

Multiple Choice

Europeans extrapolated ________ from the New World in order to enter into the Chinese trade routes of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

• A) corn
• B) copper
• C) gold
• D) slaves
• E) porcelain

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