The ritual of the kowtow was significant throughout east and central asia for all of the following reasons except
a. it established chinese control in the subordinate lands
b. it established the protocol of diplomatic contacts
c. it promoted cultural exchanges between china and her neighbors
d. it fostered trade with china and the other nations of asia

well the fact it is basically a peninsula allowed trade to come from many places, thus allowing cultural diffusion to take place. india has seasonal monsoons that merchants travel back and forth from india using the monsoons wind patterns

the monroe doctrine is the best known u.s. policy toward the western hemisphere. buried in a routine annual message delivered to congress by president james monroe in december 1823, the doctrine warns european nations that the united states would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.