Why was China unprepared to meet the threat from the West? Write a well-organized analytical essay that answers the document-based question.

DBQ: Why was China unprepared to meet the threat from the West?

Write a well-organized analytical essay (thesis / topic sentence, explicit discussion of documents, as evidence, and a concluding sentence) that answers the document-based question. Please, avoid quotations in your response.

Has a thesis that answers the document based question
Used the required number of documents to supporting evidence
Takes into account the sources of the document and the authors’ points of view
Analyzes documents by grouping them in an appropriate way. Do not simply summarize the documents individually. You may group documents based on themes, changes over time,points of view, recognizable patterns, cause and effect relationship, etc.
Brings in relevant “outside” historical context