The correct answer is A.
Due to the long distance between the colonies and England, the British allowed colonist to set up local governments and tax themselves. They allowed their collonies to self-govern for practical reasons.
On the other hand, French collonies were completely subjected to the French king, and did not posses any form of self-government.
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It served as model for later legal systems
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<em>Roman law</em> was the system of justice that was practiced in Ancient Rome. Most European countries' law systems over the centuries were based on the law of Ancient Rome, proving just to what extent it was valued.
Its history dates back from <em>the Twelve Tables,</em><em> </em>located at the Forum Romanum. They specified the rights and duties of each and every Roman citizen in order to assure the rule of democracy in the Republic of Rome.
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New transportation systems such as rail, road sea and air were introduced. New languages, religions and a new way of life were introduced. The imperialists countries gained cheap, efficient workforce. Food production increased due to better farming methods. (part -a)
Imperialism impacted societies in countless negative ways. It led to slave trade which then led to social discrimination around the world. It also damaged the cultures and created disunity among the natives. Last but not least, imperialism stripped countries off their natural resources and left nothing for the natives.(part-b)
Answer: Out of the roughly 20 million who were taken from their homes and sold into slavery, half didn't complete the journey to the African coast, most of those dying along the way. And the worst was yet to come. The captives were about to embark on the infamous Middle Passage, so called because it was the middle leg of a three-part voyage -- a voyage that began and ended in Europe. The first leg of the voyage carried a cargo that often included iron, cloth, brandy, firearms, and gunpowder. Upon landing on Africa's "slave coast," the cargo was exchanged for Africans. Fully loaded with its human cargo, the ship set sail for the Americas, where the slaves were exchanged for sugar, tobacco, or some other product. The final leg brought the ship back to Europe. The African slave boarding the ship had no idea what lay ahead. Africans who had made the Middle Passage to the plantations of the New World did not return to their homeland to tell what happened to those people who suddenly disappeared. Sometimes the captured Africans were told by the white men on the ships that they were to work in the fields. But this was difficult to believe, since, from the African experience, tending crops took so little time and didn't require many hands. So what were they to believe? More than a few thought that the Europeans were cannibals. Olaudah Equiano, an African captured as a boy who later wrote an autobiography, recalled
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