The Term "Dutch Studies" Referred to

question 18

Multiple Choice

The term "Dutch studies" referred to

• A)a period in Japanese history that corresponded to the "tulip period" of the Safavid empire.
• B)a partnership between Japanese merchants and the VOC for trading of porcelain.
• C)Japanese who learned about European weapons, shipbuilding and sciences from the Dutch based in Nagasaki.
• D)the requirement by the Emperor that Christian missionaries must learn Japanese as the Dutch had done.
• E)a learning curve as the Dutch traders attacked the technologically inferior Japanese, who adapted their technology to overthrow the merchants later.

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