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AP U.S. History Exam 1.3. The excerpt reflects a common practice of the time in which...what?
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- 00:12
Okay, here's the excerpt.
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[ mumbles ]
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[ mumbling continues ]
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All right, and the question:
- 00:23
The excerpt reflects a common practice of the time in which... what?
- 00:28
And here are your potential answers.
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[ mumbles ]
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Okay.
- 00:36
Take a look at that first sentence from the excerpt again.
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"For this reason he had sent us
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hither to put an end to so much misery."
- 00:45
Sounds like Castillo didn't think too highly of those
- 00:48
frenemies across the sea.
- 00:50
So does the excerpt reflect a common practice of the time in which A -
- 00:54
monarchs included clergy among the early explorers of new lands?
- 00:59
Hmm. Well the the end of the excerpt makes it seem like
- 01:02
these explorers were waiting for people who could
- 01:05
explain these things more fully to them,
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"things" being the ins and outs of Christianity.
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[ chuckles ] So that spirits away A.
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Does the excerpt support the idea that B -
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Europeans learned to embrace the customs of other cultures?
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Anything but, right?
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On top of wanting to put an end to so much misery,
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Europeans paid little attention to the ins and outs of Native culture.
- 01:27
So that wipes out B and C.
- 01:29
Which means that the excerpt reflects a common practice of the time in which
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D - Native Americans were seen as uncivilized
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when held to European standards.
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Back then, most Europeans believed that Native Americans
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were uncivilized and needed to be "saved,"
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which the Spaniards believed was possible
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through Jesus Christ.
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So D is the correct answer.
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Of course, much of that saving fell a little bit short
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what with widespread disease and warfare
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eradicating the population.
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Sounds more like an uncivilizing affect.
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[ crash ]
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