Ignorant of Hinduism when he arrived in India, Vasco da Gama mistook the Indian religion for:
a. The surviving remnants of the “Ten Lost Tribes” of Israel.
b. A variant of Islam that was practiced in Safavid Persia.
c. A form of proto-Christianity that had been spread by St. Thomas, Jesus's disciple.
d. The Christianity of “Prester John.”
d. The Christianity of “Prester John.”
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