:"From 1628 to 1642, French sailors captured slaves on foreign slave ships and brought them into the French colonies. "French settlers also bought slaves from foreign slave ships," Frederic Regent, a historian at Paris' Sorbonne, told Enjeux magazine in 2008.
Answer:
A confederation is a type of government in which the state or local government is the final authority.
Explanation:
A person or group besides the two primarily involved in a situation, especially a dispute.
Answer:
B: Both empires sought to project power as a mean of expanding their territories.
Explanation:
We can eliminate A as the passage mentions nothing about rebellion.
B is correct, by elimination of other options and I got it right on edge.
We can eliminate C as it does not mention a comparison between the two nations, thus we can not decide who had more political power.
D is wrong because the passage mentions the Songhay extracting wealth, but option D places wealth extraction on the Mughals.
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