The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"It is a heavily populated land. We asked why they did not sow maize;they replied that they were not doing so in order not to lose the crop,for during two consecutive years the rains had failed and the weather had been so dry that all had lost their whole crop of maize,and they did not dare sow it again until there had been copious rain. And they begged us to tell the heavens to rain,and implore them to do so,and we promised that we would do this. We also asked them from where they had brought [the maize they had],and they said from the direction the sun had set,and in all that land there was maize everywhere."
-The ideas in this passage most clearly reflect which of the following?

A) European notions of cultural and intellectual superiority over Native Americans
B) Advanced understandings among Native Americans of agriculture during the period
C) Policies of the Catholic church, which encouraged conversion of natives
D) Most Europeans believed that Natives in the New World were unfairly persecuted by Europeans