Strangely enough the correct answer here would be actually D as the voting ballots before the 1890s were in fact printed by the political parties themselves. Today the printing of ballots is a very serious business and there are strict regulations and control mechanisms in place in order to stop voter fraud which unfortunately is a big issue.
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Shinto, and then they took on Buddhism
The middle ages in Europe were pretty terrible. Politically, kings ruled directly over groups of people, or over whole countries. The kings answered to the Pope generally. Economically, the kings and their nobles owned most of the profits of hard labor, while the townspeople after were treated to low wages. A sizable gap between classes was seen economically, and there was little room for changes in a persons economic class. Socially, the structure went like this: beggars and thieves, serfs (or non land owning peasants), knights, nobles and bishops, kings, the Pope.
the spread of Christianity
Excessive speculation and buying on margin
