India traded throughout the Indian Ocean Basin, but once Portugal began to control the area, both Asian and Arab merchants were forced to pay protection <span>money so their cargo would not be seized.</span>
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<em><u>C. The defeat of Spain at the Battle of Bloody Marsh.</u></em>
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The answer is A - formally or informally.
The bureaucracy was necessitated by the Warring States period and the wars between the seven major Chinese regional powers. The Qin dynasty was adhered to a philosophy called Legalism where the state was supreme and bureaucratic structures developed to carry out the will of the state.