What term describes networks of colonies controlled by a single country?

• A. Colonies
• B. Federations
• C. Commonwealths
• D. Empires

Answer: (D)

The main idea here is a power that rules over lands beyond its own borders. When one country governs many separate territories across different regions, all under the same ruler, that whole system is called an empire. Colonies are individual lands under a mother country’s control, but the network of those lands—often spread across continents—is what we call an empire. The other terms describe different arrangements: a federation is a union of states within one country sharing power; a commonwealth refers to a voluntary association of sovereign states or former colonies; and colonies alone are just the individual lands, not the entire connected system.