Why Were White People Called 'Caucasians' in Blumenbach's Racial Typology

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Multiple Choice

Why were White people called 'Caucasians' in Blumenbach's racial typology?

• A) Blumenbach thought that light-skinned people from the Caucasus Mountains (in Georgia/Eurasia) looked the most like Adam and Eve would had looked.
• B) Caucasia is the opposite of melanin; accordingly, it leads to whiter skin.
• C) Caucasus is one of the four elements that matched up with the four cardinal directions (north, south, east, west) and therefore with the four races.
• D) Blumenbach himself was from a village in the Caucasus region.
• E) Blumenbach's patron (sponsor) was from Mount Caucasus.

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