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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division[LC-USZC4-5267]
An engraving by John White,Secotan,an Algonquian village,ca.1585
-Europeans who encountered societies like those seen in the engraving tended to view them as
A) partners in the Atlantic slave trade.
B) sovereign states with control over the territory in the New World.
C) fundamentally inferior based on theories of race and culture.
D) a significant diplomatic resource to help ease European settlement amidst Native tribes.

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The following questions refer to the image below.
  
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division[LC-USZC4-5267]
An engraving by John White,Secotan,an Algonquian village,ca.1585
-Europeans who encountered societies like those seen in the engraving tended to view them as
A) partners in the Atlantic slave trade. 
B) sovereign states with control over the territory in the New World. 
C) fundamentally inferior based on theories of race and culture. 
D) a significant diplomatic resource to help ease European settlement amidst Native tribes.

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Europeans who encountered societies like those seen in the engraving tended to view them as fundamentally inferior based on theories of race and culture. This was rooted in a Eurocentric perspective that saw European civilization as the pinnacle of human achievement and viewed non-European societies as primitive and uncivilized. This attitude laid the foundation for colonialism and imperialism, as Europeans believed they had a duty to bring civilization and Christianity to the supposedly inferior peoples of the New World.

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