By 1570 Potosí

Multiple Choice

By 1570 Potosí:

A) was abandoned because of the epidemic diseases brought by the Spanish.
B) had been seized by the English as they entered the competition for New World colonies.
C) reached a population of 120,000,with tens of thousands of natives forced into laboring in the silver mines.
D) had become the administrative capital of New Spain.
E) rose to become a religious center for the conversion of the American natives to Christianity.