The actions described in the passage from History of the Conquest of Mexico contributed to which of the following long-term changes?
In less than four years from the destruction of [Tenochtitlán], a new city had risen on its ruins. . . . Great alterations, however, took place in the fashion of the architecture. The streets were widened, many of the canals were filled up, and the edifices were constructed on a plan better accommodated to European taste and the wants of a European population.
On the site of the temple of the Aztec war-god rose the stately cathedral dedicated to St. Francis; and, as if to complete the triumphs of the Cross, the foundations were laid with the broken images of the Aztec gods. . . .
Cortés stimulated the settlement of his several colonies. . . . By a singular provision, he required every [European] settler, if a married man, to bring over his wife within eighteen months, on pain of forfeiting his estate. . . . Another law imposed the same penalty on all bachelors who did not provide themselves with wives within the same period.
— William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, 18731
Question 10 options:
Spanish colonies adopted policies of religious tolerance.
Spanish colonies developed racially mixed populations.
Spanish colonies established republican forms of government.
Spanish colonies declared their independence from Spain.
