What do you mean perspective and about what
Answer:
By first playing Italy, France and Britain against each other (they were trying to takeover Ethiopia), while this was happening, he built a large arsenal of modern weapons. When Italy advanced into Ethiopia, Menelik II declared war and successfully defeated the Italians and kept Ethiopia independent.
B. The new middle class had leisure time and extra money
I think it should be The 3rd one. The south did farm tobacco, so I know it cant be that, and they did use slave labor more than the North, and the farm were called plantations. That leaves only the Dutch and German settlers.
