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Multiple Choice

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Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section.
Terms
-Literally, "mixed"; a term used to describe the mixed-race population of Spanish colonial societies in the Americas.

• A)Cortés
• B)Doña Marina
• C)the Great Dying
• D)Little Ice Age and General Crisis
• E)Columbian exchange
• F)peninsulares
• G)mestiz
• H)mulattoes
• I)plantation complex
• J)settler colonies
• K)Siberia
• L)yasak
• M)Qing dynasty empire
• N)Mughal Empire
• O)Akbar
• P)Aurangzeb
• Q)Ottoman Empire
• R)Constantinople
• S)the devshirme

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Definitions:

Irreconcilable Differences

A term often used in divorce law to indicate that a couple cannot resolve their disagreements and thus cannot remain married.

Divorce Act

Legislation that regulates the legal process of ending a marriage, including the division of property, custody of children, and financial support.

Nuclear Family

An adult male, an adult female, and their offspring.

Bill C-38

Specific to Canadian legislation, it refers to a bill passed in 2005 that legalized same-sex marriage across Canada, making it the fourth country worldwide to do so at the time.