The economic crisis in the late sixteenth century was primarily due to
a. collapse of the trading infrastructure within China.
b. attacks from subordinate territories in Vietnam.
c. Spanish piracy against Dutch shipping and trade.
d. interruption of the silver imports from the Americas.
e. a devastating plague that killed off nearly one-third of the taxpaying population.
Question 2
All of the following are correct about Vietnam in the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries except
a. it was isolated from the major maritime trade routes.
b. it avoided losing territory to European colonial powers.
c. its population became increasingly diverse.
d. its population remained homogenous.
e. civil war split the Dai Viet into two squabbling territories.
