What Caused the Chinese to Be Closed to the Idea

question 49

Multiple Choice

What caused the Chinese to be closed to the idea of Westerners?

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

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