* Have spread ideas and innovations - Muslims spread Greek and Roman texts
* Christianity created more freedom for women as nuns
* The Catholic Church's Pope was seen as ruler rather than the emperor or political ruler (I think you can spin this one either way)
* Widows and orphans were adopted/aided by the church
* Muslims contributed to several scientific discoveries
Women rights
education for blind and deaf children
rights of the mentally ill
Statement first is true in this regard because the Spanish had a caste system that included free Africans and former slaves. Cristopher Columbus established the “first Spanish colony” in America, in what now is Haiti and The Dominic Republic.
Since the beginning, Spanish used slavery from Indigenous people in the Americas and they also brought black Africans. Spanish had “Castas”, the equivalent of racial and social hierarchies. Spanish considered slaves inferior beings.
I believe the answer is A, The Renaissance
