2. The following was NOT a cause of the Armenian genocide of 1915 instituted by the Ottoman Government of Turkey <em>A. The Armenians enacted their own genocide against the Turks a decade earlier.</em>
The genocide was an attempt to destroy the ethnic and religious diversity of the Ottoman Empire. Secondly, the Turks were afraid that the Christian Armenians as could side with the Russians. Finally, envy played a prominent role as the Armenians were generally wealthier and more educated than the Muslim Turks.
3. The account of Lieutenant Baas remains important despite the continued denial issued by the Ottoman government about the ordered mass killings because of <em>B. His first-hand account contradicts this denial.</em>
4. This was not a justification for the mass deportation of the Armenians, <em>C. It was for the welfare of the Armenian societies.</em>
5. The different perspectives by the authors of both documents show <em>B. author bias.</em>
Thus, the Armenians were mercilessly massacred by the Turks in an ethnic-cleansing effort without convincing reasons but authors' biases give different accounts of the events.
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