That's my (slave) right there workin' and if he don't work, he gets beat.
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Just by common sense we can rule out both C and B because neither of those make sense for this case. High population really doesn’t matter. So the most logical answer is D. Mostly Defending Familiar Territory
The answer is A because the significance of gunboat diplomacy is military threats which is a foreign policy used to scare the less powerful nation so that they follow the most powerful nations demands.
Galileo confirmed copernicus' theories on the universe with noting that the Earth did indeed revolve around the Sun and not the other way around as was thought at the time. With this he opposed the church dogma at the time.