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“I have heard that the smoking of opium is very strictly forbidden by your country; that is because the harm caused by opium is clearly understood. Since it is not permitted to do harm to your own country, then even less should you let it be passed on the harm of other countries- how much less to China! Of all that China exports to foreign countries, there is not a single thing which is not beneficial to the people…On the other hand, articles coming from the outside of China, what difficulty would there be if we closed the frontier and stopped the trade?… The goods from China carried away by your country not only supply your own consumption and use, but can also be divided up and sold to other countries, producing a triple profit,”  -Lin Zexu, Qing scholar-official in a letter to Queen Victoria of England, 1839 Which of the following conclusions about the period from 1750 to 1900 is most directly supported by the passage?

Questions 5-8 refer to the following passage: The worst violations of hygienic regulations were those I saw in most of the flax-spinning mills where linen is produced. . . . Although in western Europe all the dust-producing carding and combing machines have long been covered and well ventilated, I saw only one Russian linen mill where such a machine was securely covered. Elsewhere, the spools of these machines were completely open to the air, and the scutching apparatus is inadequately ventilated. . . . In factory No. 135 the workers are still treated as serfs. Wages are paid out only twice a year, even then not in full but only enough to pay the workers’ taxes (other necessities are supplied by the factory store). Furthermore this money is not given to the workers directly, but is sent by mail to their village elders and village clerks. Thus the workers are without money the year around. Besides they are also paying severe fines to the factory, and these sums will be subtracted from their wages at the final year-end accounting. –Factory Inspection Report, Moscow, 1880s What event had to occur first in order for Russia to participate in the event discussed in the passage?

Questions 1-3 refer to the following image: Cartoon from Puck, August 15, 1900 Most of the countries depicted in the cartoon had an advantage over China? What was that advantage?

Question 38-40 refer to the following image What event was influenced by the social reality depicted in the image?

Questions 1-3 refer to the following image: Cartoon from Puck, August 15, 1900 Which nineteenth-century event had forced a submission similar to the one depicted in the cartoon?

Questions 41-44 refer to the following image The Tennis Court Oath The action depicted in the image quickly led to which of the following in revolutionary France?

Questions 41-44 refer to the following image The Tennis Court Oath All of the following are ways that the Enlightenment served as an inspiration for the action depicted in the image except one. Which one?

An important molecule in sequence-based evolutionary anlayses of microbes are             genes.

An important molecule in sequence-based evolutionary anlayses of microbes are             genes.

Inflammation ________________________________.