How Is Colonialism Defined

How is colonialism defined?

A) An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
B) The economic infiltration of developing countries by multinational corporations.
C) The maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period.
D) The far-reaching process by which peripheral nations move from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.