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"In 1564 approximately three hundred Huguenots - French Protestants - built a colony they called Fort de la Caroline in Timucua country,near present-day Jacksonville,Florida. This intrusion did not go unnoticed by the Spaniards who claimed la Florida.Within a year,adelantado [nobleman] Pedro Mendez de Aviles established a post at St.Augustine and marched his troops forty miles to the north to slaughter the Frenchmen,whom he regarded not only as trespassers but as vile heretics. Thus began a Spanish occupation of strategic spots in the southeast that would last for nearly two hundred years."
Daniel Richter,Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America,2001
-The events described in the excerpt most directly foreshadowed which of the following developments?
A) The introduction of new crops and livestock in the American colonies
B) The extermination of natives through warfare and disease
C) The growth of the encomienda system and the use of Indians as slave labor
D) Inter-imperial conflict over territory in the American northeast

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The Spanish establishment of St. Augustine and their expulsion of the French colonists from Fort de la Caroline set the stage for inter-imperial conflict over territory in the American southeast. This conflict continued for centuries and was a major factor in shaping the colonial history of the region.

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