The Arrival of the Europeans
nFranciscans and Dominicans worked to gain converts among the masses.
nThe Jesuits followed the Di Nobili precedent from India in trying to win the court elite.
nScientific and technical knowledge were the keys to success at the court. Jesuits like Matteo Ricci and Adam Schall displayed such learning, but they won few converts among the hostile scholar-gentry who considered them mere barbarians.
