Read the excerpt and answer the question below. "Into this land of meek outcasts there came some Spaniards who immediately behaved like ravening wild beasts . . . killing, terrorizing, afflicting, torturing, and destroying the native peoples, doing all this with the strangest and most varied new methods of cruelty, never seen or heard of before, and to such a degree that this Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons.”-Source: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies, 1542. Which of the following historical figures most likely would agree with de Las Casas’s account of Spanish colonization? * A. Hernan Cortes B. Christopher Columbus C. Francisco Pizarro D. Moctezuma II

D. Moctezuma II

Explanation: “Moctezuma was the leader of the Aztec City Tenochtitlan when the Spanish invaded. He would have agreed that the Spaniards “bahaved like revening wild beast” and caused the deaths of indigenous people.”

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superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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