sarahhmao
sarahhmao
16.10.2019 • 
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The inhabitants of the new world were bearers
of no serious new infection transferable to the
fu n and african populations that intruded
up their temion whereas the abrupt
confrontation with the long any of infections
that human and african populations had
orontered piecemeal across some four thousand
yours of civilist history provoke massive
demographic disaster among amerindians."
william mcneill, world historian, 1976
which of the following best illustrates the
argument described in the passage above?
( spanish and portuguese plantation owners
imported large numbers of african slaves to
(b) amerindians were killed in large numbers by
diseases such as smallpox and measles
(c) some amerindian societies prior to european
contact had high population densities and
large urban centers of comparable scale to
those in one
(d) the spanish system of forced labor in mines
such as those in potosi resulted in thousands
of deaths among the amerindian
population

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