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Thank you We sneak man here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by smallpox also known as the worst

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housewarming gift ever Take the following passage european exploration river

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rivals in america I'm mrs grammer god like your pants

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And now for our question which of the following sixteenth

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century developments best supports the argument made any excerpt and

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here your pencil answers with my brain franciscan and everything

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Well let's start by nailing down what argument the excerpt

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is making to do that we have to zoom in

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on the second sentence where we're told a member of

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los saul's mississippi river expedition observed that it seems clear

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that even god wished the american indians would yield their

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place to the europeans All right so that means we're

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combing through these answers Find a historical development that some

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might think proves god gave his stamp of approval The

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european persecution of american indians Yeah Let's Look adoption eh

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Yeah The u s government did develop legislation like the

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indian removal act which forced native peoples west during the

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nineteenth century But it's not like god himself was a

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member of congress Unless he's a master of this guys

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but we're pretty sure that's not the case so option

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a doesn't really cut it out Let's look adoption seat

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well for starters american indians weren't all that compliant They

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fought war after war in defense of their land and

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culture and in the end there wasn't anything particularly miraculous

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about the way they were colonized Hard to see the

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hand of god here waken cross out option c option

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d we'll be is a little tougher to eliminate franciscan

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missionaries Converting tons of native peoples could definitely look like

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god was on a winning streak No we're going to

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go ahead and cross this one out though since missionaries

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are people and not god himself All right well so

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by process of elimination d is the best answer The

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impact of epidemics like smallpox on native populations was so

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dramatic that it probably did seem downright otherworldly to settlers

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Europeans may have brought a lot of things with them

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sandy shores of north america but disease was by far

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the most terrible fiercely Whatever happened to bring someone in 00:02:09.47 --> [endTime] nice bouquet of flower

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