Poop pic sus man :flushed:

OH YEAH

Explanation:

discovery of cape town-portuguese empire

development of africans language-dutch east india company

introduction of railway-british empire

the fact that could also be added to column b is that during world war ii, specifically between the years 1941 and 1945, japan expanded its territory towards the indonesian territory in what was known later as part of the "pacific war". in that time, japan could conquer the philipines, singapore,   borneo, central java, malang, cebu, sumatra and various other islands of the area, therefore expanding its territory for a brief period of time.