All of the following are true about European contacts with Africa except that
a. most peoples in the African interior were little influenced by Europeans in the 1500s.
b. the Portuguese took over the gold trade from Mwene Metapa in East African.
c. the Dutch established a colony at Cape Town to supply its ships headed for the Spice Islands.
d. the Boers were responsible for keeping other Europeans away from the Cape of Good Hope.
e. England established a colony at Zimbabwe in the late 1600s.
Question 2
In Spain's New World Empire,
a. Spanish colonials, following the lead of Bartolom de Las Casas, were much less harsh toward the American natives than the Spanish government urged them to be.
b. the encomienda policies insured only a 2 percent profit per year to each Spanish investor.
c. the number of natives on the island of Hispaniola was increased from 300 to 100,000 between 1493 and 1570.
d. the king was determined to convert the indigenous peoples to Christianity.
e. the native Americans eagerly and consistently embraced Spanish colonial policies.
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