"Closer to the center of European society, armed enterprise by one sovereign was sure to provoke a countereffort by rivals; and only rarely could a ruler conquer territories from which important tax income could be garnered. The success of the Spanish government in fashioning a vast empire in the Americas and its failure to maintain control over the Netherlands illustrate these facts very clearly. Spanish military effort in the New World paid off handsomely. Indeed it was the swelling flow of New World silver after the 1550s that made Philip think he could conduct war both in the Mediterranean against the Turks and in the north against the Dutch."
-Source: William H. McNeill, historian, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A. D. 1000, 1982
The developments described in the excerpt best illustrate which of the following?

A
how military competition between European nations influenced their efforts to explore and conquer the New World

B
how a series of two-front wars led to a gradual weakening of European colonial power in the Americas

C
how vast empires in the Americas developed republican forms of government that led to independence movements

D
how falling tax revenues led European nations to participate in destructive wars that delayed their technological advancement

The statement that is most evidently represented here is:

A

how military competition between European nations influenced their efforts to explore and conquer the New World

Explanation:

Armed enterprise by one sovereign was sure to provoke a counter effort by rivals as given in the passage that all the nations were willing to maintain a balance of power only by the law of the fact that they would have equal influence in the New world.

Thus many rivalries meant that there was constant competition of trying to take over as much land for the country as possible in the New world to do more trade and to gain more power against the rivals who were gaining more power constantly.

how military competition between European nations influenced their efforts to explore and conquer the New World

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an empire is a sovereign state functioning as an aggregate of nations or people that are ruled over by an emperor or another kind of monarch. the territory and population of an empire is commonly of greater extent than the one of a kingdom.[1]

an empire can be made solely of contiguous territories, such as the austro-hungarian empire or the russian empire, or of territories far remote from the homeland, such as a colonial empire. aside from the more formal usage, the word empire can also refer colloquially to a large-scale business enterprise (e.g. a transnational corporation), a political organisation controlled by a single individual (a political boss), or a group (political bosses).[2] the word empire is associated with such other words as imperialism, colonialism, and globalization. empire is often used to describe a displeasure to overpowering situations.[3]