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Sentence Completion Drill 1: Problem 8
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- 00:03
Holy Shmoop, Batman!
- 00:05
Which words could fill in the blanks so that
- 00:07
the sentence below makes sense?
- 00:09
After a blank wave of conquistadors defeated the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Aztecs,
- 00:14
Mayas, and Incas, Spain organized a huge imperial system to blank the land, labor, and mineral
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- 00:20
wealth of the New World.
- 00:28
Let's kick this off by seeing what the first blank has to tell us.
- 00:32
(A) doesn't work because the conquistador's invasion was definitely not brief. They hung
- 00:36
around like annoying relatives who just won't take a hint.
- 00:41
(B),"jocund," doesn't fit either. Jocund means cheerful, and conquistadors weren't
- 00:46
exactly cheerful, at least when it came to the way they treated Native Americans.
- 00:50
(E) catches our eye as being wrong as well. The conquistadors weren't exactly youthful,
- 00:54
though they did spend a lot of time searching for that Fountain.
- 01:00
The first blank isn't all that helpful when it comes to choosing between (C) and (D)...
- 01:04
...because both "initial" and "ferocious" would fit in that slot. So we'll see what
- 01:08
the second blank can tell us. Oh, here, we go. (D) doesn't work at all.
- 01:12
Why would the conquistadors try to undermine the land, labor, and mineral wealth of the
- 01:16
New World?
- 01:17
Those are the very reasons they got their conquering on in the first place.
- 01:21
Looks like (C) wins this battle for domination.
- 01:23
After the initial wave, the conquistadors exploited the New World like crazy. What do
- 01:28
you have to say for yourself, conquistador?
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