Which of the following is the best example of assimilation in North America during the 1500s?

Assimilation happens when people from different cultures adopt aspects of one another’s lives or become part of the same community. Indigenous people marrying Spanish settlers they met at missions is an example of cultural and social blending. Conquest and the spread of disease affected Indigenous communities, but they are not themselves examples of assimilation.

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