The largely ignored the Industrial Revolution, while China's government tried to control it with the Self-Strengthening Movement. Alexander II helped start industrialization in Russiaby freeing the serfs.17.René Descartes made his most important contributions in the field. Fill in the blank

the historians cited in the article all agree with one another about the cause of the civil war. despite coming from different backgrounds and cultures, the historians agree that slavery was the root cause of the civil war. the fact that all these historiansgenerally agree with one another makes their shared viewpoints more reliable and valid, especially because the historians have different backgrounds and all work for the well-respected institutions of howard university, clemson university, and the university of colorado.