Which participant in european imperialism is being described below?
they began their exploration in the new world trying to locate the northwest passage and later shifted their focus to asia. their policy of "divide and rule" pitted political groups against each other to keep any one group from becoming too powerful.
-dutch
-english
-french
-spaniards

I choose the French as my answer.  Early French explorers have allied themselves with other tribes to boost their numbers.  This led to wars where one tribe fought another.  This was true when they were in the New World.  They made friends of some tribes who fought other tribes.

the safahids used force when persuasion to convert from being a sunni muslim to embrace shi'ism was not effective. they also persecute shi'ites who have different views from their imposed teachings.