A) The option that best illustrates the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the empire building of the Spanish and Portuguese empires is:
the Church played an important role in both empires’ growth.
B) Regarding the impact of the Edict of Expulsion on modern descendants of the crypto-Jews who settled in Spain’s American colonies, the most accurate statement is:
Modern descendants of crypto-Jews follow some of the Judaic religious and cultural traditions brought by their ancestors.