Answer:
Convicts
Explanation:
Convicts were forced to settle in colonial america, that was the colonial punishment, penal colonies were those where convicts were sent to make forced labour for the time they were punished for their crimes and then they could be free, somthing like this happened in Australia which eventually became basically the penitentiary for the whole British Commonwealth and were convicts were sent to live their sentence.
The central powers are Germany Austria Hungary and their supporters in WW1 no sure about the other question
Most likely to show the rest of the world that they are still a powerful country so that they don't get invaded or underestimated. Also if they were to win the war they would obtain a lot of valuable resources and status. Even continuing to fight in the war benefited them just as much as it ruined them.
I think its either A or D
By "commonwealth" it must be understood all along to mean not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community which the Latins signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language is "commonwealth," and most properly expresses such a society of men which "community" does not (for there may be subordinate communities in a government), and "city" much less.
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