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What was the name of the religious order whose missionaries were MOST accepted in China during the early 1600s?

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Answer: Matteo Ricci

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The Italian city-states provided 99 Jesuits, including the most famous China missionary of all, Matteo Ricci The second-largest contingent of Jesuits (130) sent to pre-1800 China was provided by the French, who refused to submit to the Portuguese monopoly

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