In the early 1700s-1800, Europe possessed few places around the world because it lacked what two things?
- Communication Technology
- Advanced Military Weapons
- Energy/Fuel to Easily Move Around the Globe
- The Desire & Motivation

I believe

- Communication Technology

- Advanced Military Weapons

Explanation:

Railroads, steamships, telegraphs, and lethal weapons enabled western European peoples to impose their rule in most of Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, just as Euro-American settlers relied on industrial technologies to drive the indigenous peoples of North America and South America onto marginal lands. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the United States and Japan each used their industrial technologies to increase their presence in the larger world and thus joined western European lands as global imperial and colonial powers.

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explanation:

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: