What might inspire a highly educated Chinese scholar to compose such a flattering public tribute to a Mongol official is how that Mongol official affected his society or reign at the time of his ruling. Historians might be skeptical of this document because of the praise and<span>hatred his was given during the droughts.</span>
1) resources extracted by colonists (maybe less so now, but still) and so not available to the natives of the reason, going instead to China or whoever is doing the extracting now.
<span>2) Tough, dirty, dangerous job to do the actual mining. Tough - wears down the miners. Dirty - will cause long term damage, like black lung. Dangerous - both mining accidents and possible danger from dealing with the greedy. </span>
He made a plea to delegates to accept the U.S. Constitution