Europeans generally believed all of the following about Indians EXCEPT that: A. Indians lacked genuine religion.
B. Indians had enormous potential to assimilate European ways.
C. Indian males were weak and mistreated women.
D. Indians did not use the land and thus had no claim to it.

Indian males were weak and mistreated women.

Explanation:

Europeans carried a hidden enemy to the Indians: new diseases. Native peoples of America had no immunity to the diseases that European explorers and colonists brought with them. Diseases such as smallpox, influenza, measles, and even chicken pox proved deadly to American Indians.