What Is the Relationship Between Settlers' Mortality Rates and Development

question 25

Multiple Choice

What is the relationship between settlers' mortality rates and development in former colonies?

• A)Colonies had the autonomy to develop independently where diseases such as malaria kept colonial settlers from relocating to the region.
• B)Where climate allowed colonial settlers to survive,the resulting colonial policies were more likely to benefit both colonizer and colony.
• C)Countries with tropical climates were attractive to citizens from northern Europe,who learned how to overcome tropical diseases.
• D)More Europeans moved to countries with temperate climates,which gave them more direct control and led to increased exploitation by colonial powers.
• E)Former colonies where European settlers were most likely to die from diseases are the countries that now have the highest rates of economic growth.

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