The great scramble for African colonies occurred
A) just after the Napoleonic wars.
B) during Portugal's domination of the world-system.
C) as Spain was colonizing the America's.
D) in the three decades preceding World War I.
E) in the two decades after World War II.
Question 2
In the early 1900s, peripheral countries
A) were well on their way to becoming core countries.
B) imported most of their manufactured goods from core countries.
C) diversified their economies.
D) in Africa and Asia achieved their independence.
Male African lion of the Transvaal subspecies
African bush (savanna) elephant in Etosha National Park, Namibia.
Hong Kong is a strange situation. A British colony since 1842, it was handed back to China in 1997 a
An 1872 Grant campaign poster of “Our Three Great Presidents” at best got it two-thirds right.
Joseph Paxton, Crystal Palace, Great Exhibition, London.