In a surge of European imperialism to protect established interests,expand territory and compete for world influence at the end of the 19th century,European core countries carved almost the entire ________ into a collection of colonies.
A) continent of Africa
B) continent of South America
C) country of India
D) country of Brazil
E) world

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The sentence states that the European core countries carved "almost the entire" of a certain place into colonies, which strongly suggests that the place in question is a continent rather than a single country. The other options (South America, India, and Brazil) are all single countries, while the option of "world" is too broad and nonspecific. Therefore, the best choice is A), the continent of Africa.

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