“ Thus they Bartered like idiots, cotton and gold for fragments of bowls, glasses, bottles, and jars; which I paid forbade as being unjust, and myself gave them as many beautiful at acceptable articles which I had brought with me, taking nothing from them in return; I did this in order that I might be more easily conciliate them, that they might be led to become Christians.” Christopher Columbus, letter to Ferdinand and Isabella, 1493

Which of the following aided the Europeans in fulfilling the goals described in the letter?

A. the presence of Muslim Sufis in the Americas

B. the exchange of domesticated Foods in plants

C. the spread of smallpox to the Aztecs and Incas

D. the failure of the Jesuits