According to the unilineal evolutionists, the non-Western cultures being documented in the nineteenth century were
a. the products of unique historical events and human interactions.
b. as civilized as those of Western Europe.
c. examples of an earlier stage of cultural evolution.
d. anomalies that were impossible to explain.
ANSWER:
c
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