Infer Kipling described colonized peoples as "sullen." Why might they be sullen?

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"My journey to Italy was great the fifteenth-century Italy was unlike any other place in Europe!". It was divided into independent city-states, each with a different form of government. Florence, where the Italian Renaissance began, was an independent republic. In this way, the city became the cultural center of Europe and of the Renaissance

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