In Their Attempt to Control the Spice Trade in the Indian

question 51

Multiple Choice

In their attempt to control the spice trade in the Indian Ocean,Europeans during the period between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries

• A) achieved a monopoly.
• B) used an alliance with southern Indian princes to achieve success.
• C) were never able to displace the Chinese monopoly.
• D) used their seemingly godlike advantage in technology to establish a theocracy.
• E) met with limited success because of a lack of human numbers and military power.

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