Complete the sentence about Santiago with the correct year: Despite early food shortages, Indigenous attacks, floods, and devastating earthquakes—notably in ______—the city consolidated as the capital of the Captaincy General of Chile.
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Correct answer: D. 1647
Despite early food shortages, Indigenous attacks, floods and heavy earthquakes, notably the one in 1647, the city held on and grew. It became the colonial capital.
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