"New France enter[ed] its golden age in the first decades of the eighteenth century.... In Louisiana, the Illinois country, and the Great Lakes basin, French cities and villages developed alongside Indian villages.. . . Here, natives and Europeans found that their different goals were complementary. The French posed no demographic threat.... The landscape of Indian life had not been seriously altered. The fur trade depended on the integrity of that landscape."-Jay Gitlin, historian, "Empires of Trade, Hinterlands of Settlement," 1994Which of the following evidence could best be used to support Gitlin's argument in the excerpt?A. European efforts to arm American IndiansB. The use of slave labor to produce sugar in LouisianaC. Military conflicts between the French, Dutch, British, and SpanishD. Intermarriage between French colonists and American Indians

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