What does this source suggest about the role of competition between Europeans as a factor in European success in trade and empire in these centuries?

Which line from extremely loud and incredibly close reveals a melancholy tone? as for the bracelet mom wore to the funeral, what i did was i converted dad’s last voice message into morse code, and i used sky-blue beads for silence, maroon beads for breaks between letters . . she said it was the best gift she’d ever received. i asked her if it was better than the edible tsunami, from when i was interested in edible meteorological events. she said, “different.” i wanted to tell her she shouldn’t be playing scrabble yet. or looking in the mirror. or turning the stereo any louder than what you needed just to hear it. it wasn’t fair to dad, and it wasn’t fair to me. i made her other morse code jewelry with dad’s messages—a necklace, an anklet, some dangly earrings, a tiara—but the bracelet was definitely the most beautiful, probably because it was the last, which made it the most precious.

Following archduke franz ferdinand's assassination, austro-hungarian leaders: a. aided the ottoman empire in its campaign to keep serbia under its control. b. executed nearly all prominent serbs living in austria-hungary c. threatened to invade serbia if serb leaders did not agree to a set of strict demands. d.. formed an alliance with great britain to protect austria-hungary from future attacks.

How did modern american history begin with “contact”?