Which sentence from A History of the World in 100 Objects provides the most effective evidence to support
this claim and reason?
O This bestselling woodblock print, made around 1830
by the great artist Hokusai, is one of his series of
thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, as the
Industrial Revolution began, the great manufacturing
powers, above all Britain and the United States, were
aggressively looking for new sources of raw materials
and new markets for their products.
O "So this great wave seemed, on the one hand, to be a
symbolic barrier for the protection of Japan, but at the
same time it had also suggested the potential for the
Japanese to travel abroad, for ideas to move, for
things to move back and forth."
O In the long years of relative seclusion Japan, governed by a military oligarchy, had enjoyed peace and stability