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What most contributed to the diffusion of ideas from Tang and Song China to Europe?

the reinstatement of civil service exams for government officials
the creation of social services and a strong economy
the overthrow of the emperor by the Mongols
the trade along the Silk Road

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the trade along the Silk Road

Long-distance trade routes (and the merchants, travelers, and intermediaries who used them) carried Chinese technologies and ideas—paper, printing, the compass, gunpowder, etc.—westward toward Europe.