Shared by the seventeenth-century aristocratic courts of France, India, China, and Japan was the

A) production of comic opera and ballet.
B) effort to make cultural contact with each other.
C) will to employ the arts as expressive of mass sentiments.
D) commissioning of extravagant royal palaces.


Answer: D) commissioning of extravagant royal palaces.

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