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.1
according to kipling, why were imperialists motivated to take over other countries?
a. they wanted to discover new resources in foreign lands.
b. they wanted to gain honor and prestige for their countries.
c. they wanted to spread european civilization throughout the world.
d. they wanted to learn more about the other civilizations in the world.

They wanted to spread European civilization throughout the world. (APEX)

The correct answer is C. They wanted to spread European civilization throughout the world. When the author says take up the white man's burden is like white man have the obligation to spread their culture.

1 a

2 c

3 c

4 b

5 a

hope this

explanation: we can only guess at how our actions may be perceived in the future. doing something really big like killing lots of people, saving lots of people, affecting the lives of lots of people is a sure fire way of being remembered in historical records. we can also make a difference in the history records by being a small influence on something bigger, whether that is as a civil servant, scientist or artist.

of course you could argue that we all affect history just as tiny cogs in a   bigger machine.

if you mean how do people influence our opinions of things which have already happened, then simply by writing a book which looks at things form a different perspective and trying to convince people that this perspective is more accurate or truthful. people do it all the time i.e. richard the third was a terrible or was he? plenty would disagree, it's just that their views aren't the most widely known.n: