Which of the following issues was often a problem for local farmers in a colonized region?

A.) They were forced to grow crops that benefited the colonizing nations instead of feeding their own people.

B.) They were driven from their lands because colonizing nations used those lands to develop industrial factories.

C.) They had to raise pigs and cattle despite their religious objections to these types of meat.

D.) They became poor because they had to pay taxes to the colonizing nations in the form of a large share of their crops.

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Thalia Tate

23 January, 16:40

Which of the following issues was often a problem for local farmers in a colonized region?

A.) They were forced to grow crops that benefited the colonizing nations instead of feeding their own people.

B.) They were driven from their lands because colonizing nations used those lands to develop industrial factories.

C.) They had to raise pigs and cattle despite their religious objections to these types of meat.

D.) They became poor because they had to pay taxes to the colonizing nations in the form of a large share of their crops.

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Edith · Answer 1

The option is D.

The best example of this is colonial India, where several famines happened under British Rule, being the first major of it in 1770, in the region of Bengal, where about

a quarter or a third of the population starved to death in a ten-month period, and East India Company's raising of taxes to farmers disastrously coincided with this, exporting

the majority of the crops to Europe, and leaving poor most of the population that was employed in agriculture in that moment.