The Boxer Rebellion Is A Misuse Of Time

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Many say that the Boxer Rebellion was a misuse of time,effort, and lives.However when you put the Boxer Rebellion in perspective ,as if you were in their shoes, war was the most supported abstraction and the speculation was that it was the only way to disband foreigners from their lands.Yet it was not at all, many other avenues could have been traveled or other options could have been selected,for instance the boxers could have protested in Beijing,now granted not the same results would have been obtained yet at least the body count could be fewer. Whereas there maybe was no other way besides war to obtain the same results,similar results could have been obtained peacefully to alter the outcome of the boxer rebellion.

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