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<span>D. They fled from religious persecution in England.
They were puritans so everyone in Europe disliked them. Puritans were something like extremist protestant Christians with extreme work ethics and ideas of Christian purity. This wasn't approved by the regular Catholics or by the common protestants.</span>
I think it's around the 1850s
<em>European manufactured goods were generally of lower quality than the Chinese goods.</em>
During the Ming Dynasty there was a thriving trade with both Europe and Japan. The Ming dynasty managed to create high quality manufactured products, so the other merchants exchanged gold and silver. With the obtained income they obtained the construction of channels, highways and bridges on the part of the Ming Government.
Religious militancy exists in every type of religion. Almost always, those who practice this kind of radical militancy in the name of a particular religion represent only a small fraction of that religion's followers.
