HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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to create more wealth
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to promote conversion to Christianity
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to spread disease
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competition for large empires
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which was not a motivation for European exploration in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries? Ottoman control of the Silk Road.
Detailed explanation-2: -The short answer is that Europeans simply had more robust immune systems. Several factors contributed to this: first, Europeans had been the caretakers of domestic animals for thousands of years, and had over time grown (somewhat) immune to the common diseases that accompanied the domestication of such food sources.
Detailed explanation-3: -Europeans had spent more time living in close proximity to one another and with animals. This meant that had been more opportunities for diseases to evolve in European society than in the Americas, hence the assymetry.
Detailed explanation-4: -Europeans brought deadly viruses and bacteria, such as smallpox, measles, typhus, and cholera, for which Native Americans had no immunity (Denevan, 1976). On their return home, European sailors brought syphilis to Europe.