Which Is NOT a Factor in the Rise of Modern

question 73

Multiple Choice

Which is NOT a factor in the rise of modern racism?

• A) Europeans constructed a belief system that allowed them to justify the slave trade by convincing themselves that Africans belonged to an inferior,even subhuman,race.
• B) Racism helped justify colonial rule over nonwhite peoples and denied them the rights of political participation that whites were winning in the European homelands of the colonizers.
• C) An opposition between the colors white and black as cultural symbols was deeply rooted in European culture.
• D) The concept of race had existed in Europe since the early Middle Ages.

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