Many critics believe that the policy of the British government during the Irish Famine: <span>A) contributed to food shortages
During the Irish Famine, many people suffered due to the food shortage that caused by massive increase in population due to a constant flow of Immigrants from Ireland. The landlords and the wealthy of course kept a massive food supply within their reach and the British Government basically did nothing about it.</span>
They did not want the states to have all the power
<span>tough power politics with no room for idealism, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"</span>
As the European conquest of Africa unfolded, Portugal played the role of catalyst rather than leader. Hampered by its small size and weakened by several centuries of European warfare, Portugal was the smallest and poorest of Europe's imperial powers by the end of the 19th century. As a result, it was unable to hold on to everything that it claimed, but by playing off the major powers (England, France and Germany) against each other, Portugal managed to expand the territory that it actually controlled by the end of the "Scramble for Africa."
