Refer to Map 18

question 7

Multiple Choice

Refer to Map 18.2 in the textbook.Which country played a much more minor role in the second wave of European conquests in the long nineteenth century than it had played in the first wave during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

• A) Italy
• B) Britain
• C) Spain
• D) Germany

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