In Chronological Order, What Were the Three Successive Commercial Empires

question 17

Multiple Choice

In chronological order, what were the three successive commercial empires established by Europeans in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries?

• A)The Spanish, the French, and the Dutch
• B)The Portuguese, the Spanish, and the Dutch
• C)The English, the Spanish, and the French
• D)The Spanish, the French, and the English

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Definitions:

Reversal Design

An experimental technique where a behavior is measured before and after a treatment is introduced, and then once again when the treatment is removed.

Intervention

Actions or strategies implemented to produce a change in a situation or in the behavior of individuals, often within educational or therapeutic contexts.

Changing Criterion Design

A method of graphing behavioral observations used to evaluate a slow and orderly increase or decrease in a student’s performance level by changing the criterion for the student to receive an intervention in a stepwise fashion.

Target Criterion

A specific goal or standard of performance that individuals aim to achieve in an intervention, training program, or behavioral experiment.