Firearms first reached Japan via
a. China prior to the arrival of Europeans.
b. the Portuguese who were the first European traders.
c. the English who supplanted the Portuguese in China.
d. the Indian trade across the Silk Road.
e. Korea and Vietnam who sought money to finance their wars of independence against China.
b
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