Which of the following was one of the drivers of european exploration in the 1400s and 1500s?
a. europeans were driven out of europe by aggressive muslim empires.
b. europeans sought new trade routes to eastern asia.
c. europeans were in a race against african countries to colonize the world.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts