Which participant in european imperialism is being described below?
they began their exploration in the new world trying to locate the northwest passage and later shifted their focus to asia. their policy of "divide and rule" pitted political groups against each other to keep any one group from becoming too powerful.
-dutch
-english
-french
-spaniards

I choose the French as my answer.  Early French explorers have allied themselves with other tribes to boost their numbers.  This led to wars where one tribe fought another.  This was true when they were in the New World.  They made friends of some tribes who fought other tribes.

b is the answer i am assuming

social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live