"the creation of the middle ground involved a process of mutual invention by both the french and the algonquians. this process passed through various stages, of which the earliest is at once the most noticed and the least interesting. it was in this initia

73.Read the passage and answer the question below."The creation of the middle ground involved a process of mutual invention by both the French and theAlgonquians. This process passed through various stages, of which the earliest is at once the mostnoticed and the least interesting. It was in this initial stage that the French, for example, simplyassimilated Indians into their own conceptual order. Indians became sauvages, and the French reducedIndian religion to devil worship and witchcraft. Algonquians, for their part, thought of the firstEuropeans as manitous [spirits]. On both sides, new people were crammed into existing categories in amechanical way."-Source: Richard White, historian, The Middle Ground, 1991Which of the following cultural and social shifts resulted most directly from the trends described in theexcerpt?A. Indigenous people adopted a pan-Indian alliance to resist European invasion.B. Europeans adopted African slavery after disease diminished the indigenous population.C. Europeans adopted Catholicism to convert enslaved Africans and indigenous people.D. Europeans and indigenous people adopted useful aspects of each other’s culture.