Explanation: European interest in China dates back to Marco Polo, the Venetian explorer who completed two expeditions to China in the late 1200s. Polo published a widely read account of his voyages. For generations, his work remained the only authoritative European text on China. The Age of Exploration in the 1500s produced an increase in Western expeditions into Asia. Over the next three centuries, Britain, France, Spain, Holla…
The federal system divides power among a central government and smaller political units like states, while the unitary system has a central government that is supreme and its power is undivided.