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Question 1
What effect did the Opium War and the treaty of Nanjing have on China?

1. Chinese Nationalists increased their influence on rural areas.
2. The Manchu government expelled the Western Powers.
3. China was divided innto spheres of influence.
4. China adopted a democratic system of government.


Question 2
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait, in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

-- Rudyard Kipling
"The White Man's Burden"

The phrase "White Man's burden" in this excerpt refers to the

1. negative attitude of Europeans toward peoples of the non-Western world
2. advantages Europeans would gain by colonizing Africa, Asia, and Latin America
3. positive role of the Roman Catholic Church in Africa and Asia
4. challenges non-Europeans faced when trading with Europeans


Thanks so much!

Answer 1

I think its 2 and 1

Answer 2

Brian - go to your textbook!
"White Man's Burden" is basically an apology to the African people for what Britain and the other European Colonial Powers did to that Continent (I'm not ignoring the U.S. - we sure played a part, but that's not what Kipling was driving at.)
We're still feeling the effects of that Colonialism and, thereafter, the Europeans bugging out without adequately preparing those poor people for what was to come - as if anyone could have envisaged that which has come to pass...
Rwanda, Sudan...

Answer 3

2
2

Answer 4

it's 2, 1

But Question 2 is very poorly worded. That's not what the phrase refers to-- it's implicit therein, but the phrase actually refers to the responsibility that Europeans felt they had in respect to 'bettering' those 'less fortunate'.