Color prejudice has been a major issue in the modern world. W.E.B. Du Bois called it the "problem of the twentieth century,' and D.B. Saddington, among others, notes that racial differences are at their worst when associated with differences of skin color. Notable, therefore, is the fact that the ancient world did not make color the focus of irrational sentiments or the basis for uncritical evaluation. The ancients did accept the institution of slavery as a fact of life; they made ethnocentric judgments of other societies; they had narcissistic canons of physical beauty, the Egyptians distinguished between themselves, "the people, and outsiders; and the Greeks called foreign cultures barbarian. Yet nothing comparable to the virulent color prejudice of modern times existed in the ancient world. This is the view of most scholars who have examined the evidence and who have come to conclusions such as these: the ancients did not fall into the error of biological racism; black skin color was not a sign of inferiority, Greeks and Romans did not establish color as an obstacle to integration in society, and ancient society was one that "for all its faults and failures never made color the basis for Judging a man." 2) Which of the following best summarizes the passage above? A) The fact that Egyptians, Romans and Greeks had slaves and upheld the institution O of slavery was an indication that they basically held the same prejudices that twentieth century America do regarding race. B)The Egyptian prejudice against all outsiders and the Greek belief that all non-Greeks were barbarians is a demonstration that color prejudice was deeply ingrained in the ancient world. C)The ancients did accept the institution of slavery as a fact of life; they made ethnocentric judgments of other societies; they had narcissistic canons of physical beauty; the Egyptians distinguished between themselves, "the people, and outsiders; and the Greeks called foreign cultures barbarian D)Although slavery was an institution in the ancient world, there was no color prejudice like that of twentieth century America