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The peasants would be unable to provide enough for the quotas and so their goods were simply taken away from them and instead were given to the cities and the military. Millions of peasants as a result would starve to death and would end up moving to the cities where all of the food was being sent.Explanation:
The invention of barbed wire threatened the cowboys' way of life because they no longer had total freedom of navigation across the open range. The fencing in of large cattle areas also helped to settle the west, as people had a way of cheaply blocking off large areas of property.
This passage from Kipling's "White Man's Burden" most likely means "<span>c. That the people they conquered were ignorant and uncivilized," since "half devil" corresponds to "uncivilized" and "half child" corresponds to "ignorant". </span>