The Kowtow Was

question 78

Multiple Choice

The kowtow was

• A) an elite military unit.
• B) a type of formal poem.
• C) a form of economic exchange.
• D) a particularly grisly form of public execution.
• E) as symbol of fealty demanded of ambassadors.

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