What Position Did the American Colonies Occupy in the Old

Multiple Choice

What position did the American colonies occupy in the Old World Order?

A) They were prizes over which the great European empires fought over during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
B) They were power brokers unto themselves in the great imperial contests in the Age of Discovery
C) They were semi-autonomous minor powers in the first period of imperial consolidation from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
D) None of the above