The conquest of one culture by another usually resulted in all of the following, except

adoption of cultural characteristics of the vanquished by the conquerors
enslavement of the vanquished by the conquerors
adoption of cultural characteristics of the conquerors
by the vanquished extermination of the vanquished by the conquerors

The conquest of one culture by another usually resulted in all of the following, EXCEPT D. extermination of the vanquished by the conquerors. Why would the conquerors exterminate those they defeated when they can submit them to their will and use them as slaves? It makes no sense to get rid of all that workforce just because you conquered them. It's quite the opposite - the conquerors used the vanquished for many things, and they were quite useful to them.