Read the excerpt and answer the question below. "Into this land of meek outcasts there came some Spaniards who immediately behaved like ravening wild beasts . . . killing, terrorizing, afflicting, torturing, and destroying the native peoples, doing all this with the strangest and most varied new methods of cruelty, never seen or heard of before, and to such a degree that this Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons.”-Source: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies, 1542. Which of the following historical figures most likely would agree with de Las Casas’s account of Spanish colonization? * A. Hernan Cortes B. Christopher Columbus C. Francisco Pizarro D. Moctezuma II

D. Moctezuma II

Explanation: “Moctezuma was the leader of the Aztec City Tenochtitlan when the Spanish invaded. He would have agreed that the Spaniards “bahaved like revening wild beast” and caused the deaths of indigenous people.”

in february 1787, congress decided that a convention should be convened to revise the articles of confederation, the nation’s first constitution. in may, 55 delegates came to philadelphia, and the constitutional convention began. debates erupted over representation in congress, over slavery, and over the new executive branch. the debates continued through four hot and muggy months. but eventually the delegates reached compromises, and on september 17, they produced the u.s. constitution, replacing the articles with the governing document that has functioned effectively for more than 200 years.

he armenian genocide, also known as the armenian holocaust, was the ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million armenians, mostly citizens within the ottoman empire.

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