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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
-A period of unusually cool temperatures that spanned much of the early modern period, most prominently in the Northern Hemisphere. The impact of the cooler climate reached its peak in many regions in the mid-seventeenth century, helping to spark a period of record or near-record cold winters in much of China, Europe, and North America. Regions near the equator in the tropics and Southern Hemisphere also experienced extreme conditions.

• 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:

Cochlea

A coiled, bony, fluid-filled tube in the inner ear that houses the sensory receptors.

Auditory Nerve

The nerve that transmits auditory information from the cochlea in the inner ear to the brain.

Higher-Frequency Sounds

Sounds that have a higher pitch due to their faster vibration rates, typically above the normal human hearing range of 20 to 20,000 hertz.

Cochlea

A spiral-shaped, fluid-filled inner ear structure that is responsible for converting sound waves into nerve impulses.