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B · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

The conquest of America affected Europe in all of the following ways except

A) it stimulated Europe's economic modernization.
B) it discredited the intellectual authority of the ancients and promoted modern empiricism.
C) it inspired ideas about the evils of private property and the benefits of popular government.
D) it discredited Europeans' racist and ethnocentric attitudes.

Question 2

Christopher Columbus was responsible for

A) prohibiting the enslavement of indigenous peoples in the Americas.
B) initiating the idea to enslave African peoples.
C) enslaving some 2000 indigenous Caribs later sold in Castile.
D) abolishing the practice of indigenous enslavement.