A country takes over a territory beyond its natural borders. The country then sends settlers to the new territory and uses the resources of the territory to increase its wealth. The act of acquiring new territory is part of which of the following?

Ahypothesis is: a the average squared deviations about the mean of a distribution of values b) an empirically testable statement that is an unproven supposition developed in order to explain phenomena a statement that asserts the status quo; that is, any change from what has been c) thought to be true is due to random sampling order da statement that is the opposite of the null hypothesis e) the error made by rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true