A lack of trade with other nations outside East Asia has been a serious cost of industrialization in East Asia.
The U.S. Declaration of Independence states that "when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government" (emphasis added).
The people elect representatives to vote on the laws for them
An early traveler to China was B. Marco Polo
Answer:
he believed it was about preserving the Union
