The Ottoman empire had taxes and restriction on trade in its own territory that influenced and encouraged Europeans to seek new trade routes to other countries like India and China or any other countries in East Asia that is how the ottoman empire influenced the Europeans to explore during those centuries.
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The correct answer is C. Large Hindu population.
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The first Continental Congress had gathered to discuss the Coercive Acts, but the Americans had called them the Intolerable Acts. It was British's way to punish Boston after the Boston Tea Party where men dressed as Native Americans dumped British tea into Boston harbor because of its tax.
Religion? Hinduism features a social caste system
