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The devastation of the Greater Antilles in the early 1500s

A) was a result of the declining world market for sugar cane.
B) increased criticism regarding the way the local Indians were treated.
C) occurred because of the lack of profitability of the local encomiendas.
D) caused missionaries to move their conversion efforts to other areas.

Greater Antilles

The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico.

Encomiendas

A Spanish colonial practice that granted colonists the right to demand tribute and labor from indigenous peoples in the Americas, effectively a form of forced labor and enslavement.

Conversion Efforts

Attempts to change a person's religious beliefs to a different religion, often associated with historical missionary work and contemporary religious movements.

  • Investigate the importance of the Columbian exchange for both the Old and New Worlds.
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