The answer to this question would be A. the European countries were always trying to become the most powerful in the world.
The individuals of Sparta fought for to the state and did military service all their life.
Building the Panama Canal, 1903–1914. President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal—a trans-isthmiancanal. Throughout the 1800s,American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.