If a gov court senences someone to death it is a legitimate use of power.
The answer would be C.
The Compromise of 1877, settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ending the Reconstruction Era.
Two most important factors were the development of industry and industrialization, and the slave trade. People started accumulating large amounts of wealth due to these two and started investing them in businesses, both personal and by other people. This led to the development of capitalism not only in Europe, but other places too.
Europe, has more advances in technology in warfare, transportations. Also their governments are strong and stable due to ones careful rule.
But the real reason for European dominant is because they really and I mean really focus on their militaristic aspect as which they relied on for stability, conquest, and glory because thousands of years, Kings and some Queens are tought the ways of war and how war can give more than just territory and as a matter of fact Kings had trained themselves in Europe for milania, so not just did Kings evolve but the technology to fight among themselves were drastically improved as well.
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