In the 17th and early 18th centuries, Britain's greatest challenge in controlling the North American Atlantic trade illustrated above was a the growth of regional distinctiveness. b external competition. c repeated colonial wars. d widespread corruption in the imperial system.\

The correct answer is B) external competition.

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In the 17th and early 18th centuries, Britain's greatest challenge in controlling the North American Atlantic trade illustrated above was external competition.

On the map, we can see the Americas and the European continent with different trade routes across the Atlantic Ocean, and of course, Great Britain was not the only nation trading goods during the North American Atlantic trade. It was England, but also France, Spain, Portugal, Germany.

During the triangle trade years, African Slaves were sold to American landlords to put slaves to work for long hours in the farm fields to produce the kinds of crops that needed to be exported to Europe. European industries manufactured goods with those raw materials and sent them back to Africa and the Americas to be sold for good profits.

in the 1800s, locomotives powered by steam made transportation faster and cheaper. the resulting rapid growth of railroads led to the connection of the atlantic and pacific railroad in oklahoma city in 1897.

in the last years of the century, the improvement of steam-based engines the expansion and growth of railroads. this growth increased when the companies started to build and expand, such as the atlantic and pacific railroad, which connected new mexico with california, and missouri with oklahoma. many of these new networks were built in oklahoma, and these changes transportation henceforward.

the caste system in india is the paradigmatic ethnographic example of caste. it has origins in ancient india, and was transformed by various ruling elites in medieval, early-modern, and modern india, especially the mughal empire and the british raj.it is today the basis of educational and job reservations in india.it consists of two different concepts, varna and jati, which may be regarded as different levels of analysis of this system.

the caste system as it exists today is thought to be the result of developments during the collapse of the mughal era and the british colonial regime in india. the collapse of the mughal era saw the rise of powerful men who associated themselves with kings, priests and ascetics, affirming the regal and martial form of the caste ideal, and it also reshaped many apparently casteless social groups into differentiated caste communities.the british raj furthered this development, making rigid caste organisation a central mechanism of administration

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