In the engraving Amerigo Vespucci Awakens a Sleeping America, the native inhabitants of this new continent are portrayed as being _.
A) good-natured but primitive
B) sexual and savage
C) charitable and religious
D) well-educated but unsophisticated

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The engraving "Amerigo Vespucci Awakens a Sleeping America" portrays the native inhabitants as sexual and savage, reflecting the European perspective of the time that often depicted the indigenous peoples of the New World in a manner that emphasized their perceived exoticism and primitivism.

In the Engraving Amerigo Vespucci Awakens a Sleeping America, the Native