Europeans—particularly the English, French, and Dutch—generally claimed North American Indian land as their own based on:
A) the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494.
B) the Biblical story of Noah's division of the world among his sons.
C) financial transactions between Indian peoples and themselves.
D) their view that Indians did not use the land properly.
E) various papal decrees that privileged the claims of European Christians over those of Indian "heathens."
Ans: D) their view that Indians did not use the land properly.
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