By the Seventeenth Century, the Indian Population in Spain's New

question 9

Multiple Choice

By the seventeenth century, the Indian population in Spain's New World empire had decreased by about:

• A) 5 percent
• B) 50 percent
• C) 25 percent
• D) 90 percent
• E) 10 percent

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