7.3.4 Quiz: Oceania Question 6 of 15 What did Europeans most typically use the small Pacific islands for? O A. Refueling stations B. Educational centers C. Penal colonies o D. Sources of slaves

Naval bases , Refueling stations.

Explanation:

The Europeans have developed the pacific island of the Fiji, Nauru, Palau, Tonga and the Samoa, Vanuatu for the naval base and the refueling activities, similar to those of the Chinese there traces have been found in the 420 and the 200 B.C. The Melanesians, and Micronesians, Polynesians are some of the island groups that are explored by the Europeans and they are by the Portuguese explorers.

Explanation:

there's multiple reasons why the conquistadors were so successful in colonizing central america, and some of them are:

- they were seen as gods;

at the beginning, the spanish settlers were seen by the natives as gods, and this was mainly due to their white skin, and the way they came with their boats.

- possessed superior weaponry;

the spanish had gunpowder and guns, as well as cannons, while the natives did not had any fire weapons.

- made cleaver alliances;

they used the situation of tribes hating each other, so they made alliances with some of them which served them very well.

- brought diseases;

the native people were not immune to certain diseases the europeans brought with them, so they were dying from seeming harmless things for european standards.