Why did the qing regime have a policy of limited foreign contacts?

to avoid a demographic shift from the rural countryside to port cities

to prevent its population from developing an appetite for foreign goods

because they feared complete invasion by advanced european armed
forces

because the infrastructure was inadequate to deal with naval and overland commerce

Which number shows the location of italy?

1.     in what kind of government does a small group have a firm control over a country?  

"the plan of removing the aboriginal people who yet remain within the settled portions of the united states . . approaches its consummation. . an extensive region . . has been assigned for their permanent residence. it has been divided into districts and allotted among them. many have already removed and others are preparing to go. . " removal of southern indians to indian territory, 1835 this passage is most closely related to a) imperialism. b) the civil war. c) westward expansion. d) the french indian war.