The Letter
Dear Mother,
Staff Sargent has informed me I will depart at 8:00 A.M tomorrow. Unfortunately, I don't know if I will be making it home anytime soon. Although, don't be discouraged if I don't make it back.
Farewell,
Soldier
Answer:
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Explanation:
it led to a decline of trade and eventually the end of the kingdom.
The red guards we a group of middle school students in Beijing.
-Steel jelly
Answer:
The fall of the Ming dynasty was caused by a combination of factors, including an economic disaster due to lack of silver, a series of natural disasters, peasant uprisings, and finally attacks by the Manchu people.
China was easily defeated by the British in the first Opium War because the British had superior technology.
Explanation:
The Chinese feudal society in time of the Opium war had digressed much from its original form as one of the leading innovators in the ancient and the medieval world.
They had not been updating their technology and the society had not changed for hundreds of years until the Europeans forced their entry into the country and changed their trade laws.
Thus, they had no experience in modern warfare and lost the war easily to the English force which knew and studied their weaknesses.
