Which statement best supports the argument that religion played a role in the Arab slave trade?

(A) Seizing all peasants busy cultivating their fields (B) With orders to attack places without defenses (C) Four hundred slaves, of whom three hundred were women (D) All of you [soldiers], are summoned . . . to hunt the idolatrous KoholanesExplanation: Specifying that captives were “idolatrous” makes it clear that the slavers were working off a religious premise. Choices A, B, and C all refer to the capture of slaves, not to their ultimate destination or purpose and not to their religious beliefs.