By the End of the Seventeenth Century, What Best Characterized

Multiple Choice

By the end of the seventeenth century, what best characterized the role of Europeans in Asia?

A) European colonists had seized several substantial Asian territories.
B) The Dutch had displaced the Portuguese and English as the sole European presence in Asia.
C) Europeans in Asia were primarily missionaries, who lacked commercial interests.
D) Europeans held a few coastal enclaves and had not significantly transformed Asian trade.