War and violence. While epidemic disease was by far the leading cause of the population decline of the American indigenous peoples after 1492, there were other contributing factors, all of them related to European contact and colonization. One of these factors was warfare.
Pineapple was not a plant in the colonial times of the U.S.
Himalayan region in the north, the Gangetic Plain, and the Plateau region in the south and central part.
The correct answer is C. Southwest Asia
There were outposts in the Indian ocean and they traded slaves in that area as well as northern Africa. Mexico and South America had not yet been discovered while Russia was too far away to participate in anything. They traded with locals in around Egypt as well as the SEA region.
