I need help with these two questions from the Jamaica Letter by Simon Bolivar

the mother countries succeed in doing that by using the colony's natural resources, facilities in a colony, they do not take good care of these facilities, causing them to fail. this has had negative and positive effects on the people of africa, they then governed through direct or indirect rule depending on the country.

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the articles of confederation placed most of the power on the feds

i think it was because of how protected egyptian civilization was was which allowed them to evolve without much outside influence.