Well, based on the information and choices given your answer is going to be "<span>a. expanding China’s overseas trade"
This had been something that Zheng He had done that actually did some really great stuff back then.
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I would have to say that the best answer is probably C:
<span>The chief motivation for the settling of New England was: religious freedom. </span>
That's because they were preparing for the biggest war in human history. This was the policy of militarism where building up a military was necessary to ensure that the people could fight against others. The number of soldiers in European armies increased twice in size in only 20 years between the 1890s and 1910s.