Westerners Might Have Had More Success in Opening China to Trade

question 15

Multiple Choice

Westerners might have had more success in opening China to trade if

• A) the Jesuit missionaries had not worked so hard at converting the peasants.
• B) the Portuguese had not offended Chinese sensibilities so much that they were temporarily expelled from the country.
• C) the Portuguese and the Dutch had not jockeyed so hard for a favorable trade position when they arrived in China.
• D) missionaries had not inadvertently brought several deadly diseases with them.
• E) they had not tried to force Western scientific ideas on the Chinese.

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