Hurry! 1: how was mexico described in the 1900s? a: a communist dictator controlled the economy for 52 years. b: one political party held power until the 1990s. c: the same royal family ruled for the entire century. d: great britain governed mexico as a colony until 1983. 2: which people did european landowners need to work on their colonial plantations after many of the native americans died? a: landowners' families b: chinese peasants c: russian serfs d: enslaved africans