Question
Which of the following was the greatest short-term effect of Spanish colonization on American Indians?
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Responses
It sharply decreased their population.
It sharply decreased their population.
It opened them to European ideas.
It opened them to European ideas.
It gave them new crops to grow.
It gave them new crops to grow.
It led to their disappearance from the Americas.
It led to their disappearance from the Americas.
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The greatest short-term effect of Spanish colonization on American Indians was:
It sharply decreased their population.
This was primarily due to diseases brought by Europeans to which Indigenous populations had no immunity, leading to dramatic population declines.
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