Author Question: Beginning in the 1540s, the position of the indigenous population in Spanish America improved ... (Read 34 times)

mikaylakyoung · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

Copernicus believed that

a. the earth was larger than the sun.
b. the sun was motionless.
c. there was no such thing as crystalline spheres.
d. Galileo was wrong about the structure of the solar system.
e. the stars did not really exist.

Question 2

Beginning in the 1540s, the position of the indigenous population in Spanish America improved because

a. the crown established the encomiendas.
b. crown officials assumed authority over the population.
c. Spanish control waned.
d. prices rose in Europe.
e. plantations were introduced.