The meiji reformers actively copied the western europeans and americans because
a. the chinese refused to share their technology with the japanese
b. they understood the danger of those two groups and wanted to find a way to avoid commercial and/or imperial domination by either one
c. those lands had always treated the japanese with equality and respect
d. japan had already been divided up into spheres of influence and they wanted to find a way to push the europeans and americans out

aug 15, 2012 - although van leeuwenhoek was not the inventor of the microscope, he advanced it more he loved to grind and focus a new lens in order to see the unseen world. most of leeuwenhoek's microscopes were silver. in a simple but significant experiment (1668), he demonstrated that worms found on

the government paid religious orders to provide basic education to native american children on reservations. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the bureau of indian affairs (bia) founded additional boarding schools based on the assimilation model of the off-reservation carlisle indian industrial school.