What system drove european nations to compete for control of limited worldwide wealth?

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. and i live on, but in grief and self-contempt, left here without the light i loved so much, in a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt. no more love songs, then, i have done with such; my old skill now runs thin at each attempt, and tears are heard within the harp i touch. (lines 9-14) which of the lines, taken from the sestet shown above, is the volta?

According to the qianlong emperor, why was china not interested in importing anything else?

During world war if an artist published an editorial cartoon criticizing the american entry into the war that artists was guilty of