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.

According to the poem, how did the imperial powers justify the colonization
of African and Asian nations?
A. The imperial powers believed that they needed African and Asian
resources to grow their economies.
B. The imperial powers believed that they would eventually be able to
bring democracy to Africa and Asia.
C. The imperial powers believed that they could use African and
Asian territory as military bases
D. The imperial powers believed that they were spreading a superior
culture in Africa and Asia