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The decline of the Brazilian sugar industry by the late seventeenth century was primarily because of
 
  A) soil exhaustion.
  B) competition from more efficient Caribbean plantations and refineries.
  C) continual indigenous attacks on plantations.
  D) burdensome royal export taxes on sugar.

Question 2

The principal threat to Portuguese sovereignty over Brazil came from
 
  A) France.
  B) England.
  C) Spain.
  D) Holland.



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

D





 

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