Answer: d.American Indians
Step-by-step explanation:
When the Europeans first arrived in the Americas, they found out that the Americas were not uninhabited but had various tribes of a groups of people collectively referred to as American Indians.
As much war and disease befell the American Indians from the Europeans, they lost a lot of their land and their numbers were greatly reduced such that their dominance over the Americas was taken from them and their status in society reduced greatly.