2.4 Quiz Read this excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden " and then answer the question that follows : Take up the White Man's burden Send forth the best ye breed Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need To wait, in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild Your new-caught sullen peoples , Half devil and half child . - Take up the White Man's burden In patience to abide , To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple , An hundred times made plain , To seek another's profit And work another's gain . According to the poem , how did the imperial powers justify the colonization of African and Asian nations ?

The White Man's Burden

Explanation:

According to Rudyard Kipling, European countries had a responsibility to spread their culture and hold power to less civilized places. European believed in establishing their influence and controlling Non-Christians. The native people in the colonies considered to be lower and pagan. Europeans countries like Britain have a right to convert the native with no tolerant attitude.

letter d is correct.

when studying cause and effect, historians usually group the causes into different categories. for example, cultural causes reflect how a society’s literature and art convey the way the society saw itself in relation to the rest of the world. another resource that historians use to understand society is pop culture, which tells them the trends and ideas that are preferred by the common people. when studying cause and effect, it’s important to remember multiple causation, or the idea that an effect could have several causes and vice versa.  

the correct option is “cultural causes” since art and literature are related to the culture of a place. culture is determined by literature, art, music.

the correct option is “pop culture” since it reflects the likes and ideas of common people whereas the rest of the options do not focus on common people.  

the correct option is “multiple causation” since it refers to the idea that events are caused by multiple reasons, not just a single one.