I don't know what "this" means here - but Spain, England and Portugal based their empires on their sea explorations and colonizations - all their colonies were not reachable (or only by de-tours) by land.
China, on the other hand was not based on Islands, but connected by land: so here China is the best option.
A. British soldiers fired on a crowd of trouble makers
kathmandu was a single political unit during the early period of of malla rule but after the end of the yakshya malla it was divided into three states,namely kantipur ,patan and Bhadgaon. similarly , there were kiranti kingdoms in the east and tirhut in the south.
