the Buddhism and Confucianism have had an impact on China for about two thousand years or so! In fact, Chinese culture is rooted in these two philosophies and their impact on Chinese life and economics is pretty deep!
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The factors favored was that they were free to the land.
They wanted to avoid working with Muslim middle-men who would take part of the profit for supplying them with Asian goods. They developed naval travel to travel on their own and increase their profit.i hope this helps