Question 5 1 pts "Much of the cause) for English expansion (in North America) derived from the colonists concern for their animals sustenance, a fact that Indians grasped only too clearly. That numerous Indian communities acquired their own livestock, turning the colonists' rationale against them in a futile attempt to preserve native control over land, bespeaks both the irony and tragedy of the story. An adaptation that colonists had encouraged, and ought to have applauded, instead produced friction when it became obvious that Indians intended to pick and choose among the items on the English agenda for native cultural transformation Owning cows did not make them Christians, much less Englishmen --- Virginia De John Anderson, historian, Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, 2004 The idea expressed in the excerpt above illustrates which historical continuity? The desire to convert native populations to Christianity The necessity of trade between Europeans and native tribes to always be completely mutually beneficial to both parties The perpetual conflict between various European empires in the New World The effects of the Columbian Exchange and colonial commercial agriculture on native populations