How did skilled artisans contribute to the successes of the ming dynasty?
the artisans fulfilled the ideals of confucianism, which encouraged employment.
the artisans produced beautiful items, which decorated the emperor’s palace and the forbidden city.
the artisans produced silk and porcelain goods that demanded high prices, thus increasing china’s trade and wealth.
the artisans provided jobs to the chinese peasants who could no longer work in agriculture because of the famine.

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Anagnos: . . it will no doubt be difficult for you there, annie. but it has been difficult for you at our school too, hm? gratifying, yes, when you came to us and could not spell your name, to accomplish so much here in a few years, but always an irish battle. for independence. (he studies annie, humorously; she does not open her eyes.) this is my last time to counsel you, annie, and you do lack some – by some i mean all – what, tact or talent to bend. to others. and what had saved you on more than one occasion here at perkins is that there was nowhere to expel you to. what do anagnos's words reveal about annie in this excerpt