How did the Ming dynasty's economic policies affect global trade beginning in the 15th century?
O A. They helped weaken the economic influence of the Ottoman
Empire.
B. They forced European merchants to focus their trading efforts on
Africa.
C. They made it more challenging for foreign countries to trade with
China.
D. They allowed Western political ideas to spread quickly throughout
China.

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation:

> la jirafa: the giraffe

> el loro: the parrot

> la tortuga: the turtle

> el cerdo: the pig

> la vaca: the cow

> la araña: the spider

> el tiburón: the shark

> la langosta: the lobster

hope that !

the right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "their policy of "divide and rule" pitted political groups against each other to keep any one group from becoming too powerful.  " the  participant in european imperialism is being described below is that  their policy of "divide and rule" pitted political groups against each other to keep any one group from becoming too powerful. 

social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live