The Manila Galleon was a part of the Spanish fleet system in which
A) the Crown encouraged unlimited expansion of colonial trade with Asia.
B) Spanish merchants flooded Asian markets with Spanish textiles.
C) Mexican merchants invested twice as much money as they earned in profits.
D) two ships annually sailed between Acapulco and Manila trading silver for silks.
Question 2
Congregacin was a Spanish royal policy that
A) forced indigenous people to surrender ancestral lands to expanding haciendas.
B) enabled Spaniards to pay a fee to legalize defective titles that usurped indigenous lands.
C) assured the perpetuation of consolidated property.
D) promoted mixed-race marriages in order to increase indigenous populations.