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The expansion of the Russian Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is primarily explained in the context of which of the following global developments?ResponsesAEuropean states using their control over maritime trade routes to impoverish non-European societiesBEuropean states using joint-stock companies to expand their economic and political dominance over non-European societiesCEuropean states taking advantage of religious conflicts in non-European societies to expand their influenceDEuropean states acquiring growing technological and military advantages over non-European societies to expand their power

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