<span>Italy because it was going through the Renaissance. </span>
The main way in which inventions such as the telescope and microscope changed the way people saw world is that the former invention allowed them to see into space, which gave a much better representation of Earth's place in the Universe--while the latter invention allowed people to see microorganisms and things like cells, which allowed them to better understand life on earth.
Great Britain. If you look at a map of colonial nations in Africa, Great Britain by far has an extensive amount.
The answer for this would be the individuals on the island would all appear very alike to individually or each other, and they may demonstrate uncharacteristically high incidences or manifestation of traits that are unusual in the universal human population.