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Practice Test

Question 1 • World History

What happened to Indigenous peoples in the Americas after 1492?

Answer
A
Their population decreased by nearly twenty percent.
B
They began selling horses for gold.
C
Most perished from disease.
D
They began growing tea and coffee.

Explanation

After 1492, Europeans brought diseases such as smallpox to the Americas. Indigenous peoples had little immunity to these new illnesses, so epidemics killed enormous numbers of people. Thus, the best choice is “Most perished from disease”; the choices about horses and crops do not describe the main impact.

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