Answer:
Some benefits that colonial rule brought to Southeast Asia were that initiated a modern economic system, there were roads, highways, and railroads built, and the development of an export market created a entrepreneurial class of people in rural areas. Even though most of the profits went back to the colonial mother country, some growers of rubber, palm oil, coffee, tea, and spices made profits. I think the disadvantages outweighed the advantages because they still didn't have a lot of freedom and couldn't freely trade how they wanted to.
It would be the second option
C is the right answer by the way
Marco Polo traveled during the middle ages (AP period 3), for this the communication technology was not very advanced and Western Europe didn't really know the situation of East Asia and vice versa. When Marco Polo explained his travels to the Europeans of the greatness of China many Europeans decided to go and see for themselves if this greatness was indeed true. When the Europeans arrived in China they were very impressed and a new promotion of travel to China emerged, INCREASING China's economy.
