"Closer to the center of European society, armed enterprise by one sovereign was sure to provoke a countereffort by rivals; and only rarely could a ruler conquer territories from which important tax income could be garnered. The success of the Spanish government in fashioning a vast empire in the Americas and its failure to maintain control over the Netherlands illustrate these facts very clearly. Spanish military effort in the New World paid off handsomely. Indeed it was the swelling flow of New World silver after the 1550s that made Philip think he could conduct war both in the Mediterranean against the Turks and in the north against the Dutch."
-Source: William H. McNeill, historian, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A. D. 1000, 1982
The developments described in the excerpt best illustrate which of the following?

A
how military competition between European nations influenced their efforts to explore and conquer the New World

B
how a series of two-front wars led to a gradual weakening of European colonial power in the Americas

C
how vast empires in the Americas developed republican forms of government that led to independence movements

D
how falling tax revenues led European nations to participate in destructive wars that delayed their technological advancement

The statement that is most evidently represented here is:

A

how military competition between European nations influenced their efforts to explore and conquer the New World

Explanation:

Armed enterprise by one sovereign was sure to provoke a counter effort by rivals as given in the passage that all the nations were willing to maintain a balance of power only by the law of the fact that they would have equal influence in the New world.

Thus many rivalries meant that there was constant competition of trying to take over as much land for the country as possible in the New world to do more trade and to gain more power against the rivals who were gaining more power constantly.

how military competition between European nations influenced their efforts to explore and conquer the New World

Explanation:

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1.which of the following was the significance of the emergence of a vernacular language in medieval europe?

answer: it suggested a new interest in ordinary people

2.which of the following was a central idea in thomas aquinas's suma theologica?

answer: faith and reason don't contradict each other

3.which of the following did gothic architecture reflect about the late middle ages?

answer: the church had great wealth and authority

4.what examples of gothic architecture survive today?

answer: abbeys, cathedrals, universities

5.how did the byzantines most directly impact later civilizations?

answer: by preserving ancienct sources of knowledge and information

6.which of the following was the impact on europe of the disease described?

answer : 1/3 of the population of europe died, production declined, and cost of labor soared

7.which pair of answers best completes the top and middle arrows in the chart?

answer: the bubonic plague severly reduced the population of europe; higher demand for labor increased wages and prices leading to a market economy

8.which order of contacts most likely traces the spread of the bubonic plague to medieval europe?

answer: conquering mongol armies in asia, rats in chinese cities, fleas with travelers to the middle east and europe

9.if you wrote an essay about medieval europe, in a paragraph about which topic would you most likely refer to avignon?

answer: papal rivalry

10.how did the second great schism lead to the end of medieval europe?

answer: it caused people to question the authority of the church

11.which pull factors attracted european jews to eastern europe during the late middle ages?

answer: jews were attracted to eastern europe because they could practice judaism there without persecution

12. why did the speaker call moscow the "third rome"?

answer: moscow was the center of expanding political power

13.which statement best summarizes the effect of geography on eastern europe?

answer: different parts of the region were most influenced by cultures that had easiest access to them

14.how did eastern europe become home to so many ethnic groups?

answer: its geography and location facilitated migration

15.what are two factors that probably isolate russia from western europe?

answer: the cyrillic alphabet and olga's selection of the byzantine church

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