Britain annexes New Zealand 1838
United States warships arrive in Japan demanding that Japan opens its port trade 1853
New Zealand becomes independent 1853
Meiji restoration 1868
Sino Japanese war 1894
United States annexes Hawaii 1898
Spanish American war 1898
Australia becomes an independent commonwealth January 01 1901
Filipino US conflict 1899 1902
Russo Japanese war 1904 1905
Heyo, I believe your answer would be B. increased over each decade.
The conjugation of the verb "design" to "designed", without any auxiliary verb such as "have" or "do", shows the use of the 'simple past" tense (also known as preterite), whose principal function is to place a completed action or situation in a moment before "now".
What tense is the underlined verb in the sentence? The architect designed a daring structure.
D. Past
