The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although the question is incomplete because you forgot to attach the excerpt from "The Origins of the Boxer Uprising" by Joseph W. Esherick, we can comment on the following.
According to Esherick, the Boxer Rebellion became such a famous historical event because it made a group of Chinese young men to have the consciousness of the consequences due China to the Western world influences and the Christian religion that some priest tried to evangelize in China.
In 1900, this group was known as the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists. They didn't like and never accepted the influence of Japan, neither the Western world culture. They started to protest and violently actions like attacking and killing foreign people, Christians, and destroyed private property.
The Ming dynasty restricted trade with Europe because to prevent the spread of European ideas and culture in China.
Answer: Option B
<u>Explanation:</u>
Ming Dynasty restricted trade with Europe because they faced many consequences due to the impact on Chinese individuals made by Europeans which also included religion. Ming dynasty rulers found it devastating for the nation and people in terms of both religion and economical support for future.
Europeans were fulfilled with many technologies and tactics to acquire any land area and attract people towards them and this journey they always start by trading with target nation. Their procedures resulted disruption within society and at the end government.
The purpose of the petition sent to king George lll by the first continental congress was to inform his majesty that if it had not been for the acts of oppression forced upon the colonies by the British Parliament, the American people would be standing behind British rule.
Liberate Afghanistan from the Taliban as part of the bigger idea of The War Against Terror
Answer:
I think the answer would be religious differences
