The "white man's burden" proposed by Rudyard Kipling referred to the
A) cost of creating and supporting an empire.
B) moral duty of the west to work to "civilize" the rest of the world.
C) cost of abolishing slavery in Africa.
D) need for Christian missionaries to undermine Islam in Africa and Asia.
E) All these answers are correct.
Answer: B) moral duty of the west to work to "civilize" the rest of the world.
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A) Habsburg. B) Romanov. C) Adolphus. D) Rurik. E) Hohenstaufen.
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