The answer is True and also it was the Civilization Act.
I would say 30,000 cause all the next developments were from the 1860's forward and that is when huge growth happened, after 1860.
The first Europeans to have contact with the Ming Dynasty were the Portuguese.
It was Hongwu to rule first the Ming dynasty and had taken the Mongols out of China. The said Dynasty rose after the effort exerted by the Chinese to take away the Mongols who tried to invade. Ming dynasty was so full politically. The dynasty constitute of politically strict leaders
The trade during the Ming dynasty was based on foreign isolation that only the government can made trades with the foreign countries.
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"Trans-Saharan trade requires travel across the Sahara between sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa. While existing from prehistoric times, the peak of trade extended from the 8th century until the early 17th century. The Sahara once had a very different environment. In Libya and Algeria, from at least 7000 BC, there was pastoralism, the herding of sheep, goats, large settlements, and pottery. Cattle were introduced to the Central Sahara from 4000 to 3500 BC. Remarkable rock paintings, in places which are currently very dry, portray vegetation, and animal presence rather different from modern expectations."
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Rhode island colonies allowed religous freedom but i think you had to be a Puritan to worship in massachusetts bay colony....
