The correct answer is B) 1870 - 1900. In the decade of 1870 a macroeconomic imbalance was experienced in Europe caused by the overproduction and the fall of the prices of the industrial products, this generated a generalized crisis that forced the industrialized countries to initiate the processes of colonial expansion and the opening of foreign markets. Thus, an imperial race was initiated to control markets throughout the world by imposing conditions that were not only economic but political. In this way the empires consolidated and were in charge of controlling colonies throughout the world in the late 1890s to guarantee their economic, political and military stability.
