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 powers carved almost the entire into a collection of colonies.

Africa

Explanation:

The European powers divided almost the entirety of Africa among themselves after the Berlin Conference. Arbitrary borders that ignored Africa's history and ethnicities were drawn, and many of those borders live up to this day, causing conflict in the continent.

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the right answer is the end of world war ii

after the end of a global wwii all the nations involved, in an attempt to create an organization to maintain world peace. this agreement would work settling international disputes via negotiation and arbitration instead of leading the issues escalate to another war.