We can connect ourselves form the past by looking at the different hings that our ancestors did.
Answer:
A) Extending control over the economy
Explanation:
Both monarchs wanted to have powerful countries: they built magnificent palaces to glorify their power (Versailles and Saint Petersburg), engaged in wars to add more territories, and forced nobility to westernize to improve armies for example, but both failed or missed to give strength and health to country economy, and increased poverty levels in their populations, as all these improvement goals rendered a lot of expenses to the State.
The islands of Isla de Lobos and Lobos Island (Rio Negro)
The answer is A, that a slave would count as three-fifths of a person when counting population for representation.