Question

Before the steam engine and the power loom pulled economic might from Asia to the West, today’s emerging economies dominated world output. From 1000 to the mid-1880s, they produced, on average, 70 to 80 percent of it.

Over this span, PICK EITHER: Germany and Great Britain OR China and India, were the world’s two biggest economies; PICK EITHER: China, Great Britain, India, OR Germany alone generated one-third of global output in 1850.

Beginning in the 1880s, PICK EITHER: China, Great Britain, India, OR Germany, converted its booming industrial might into global leadership, and soon became the driver of the global economy. Then, as history unfolded, the twentieth century saw the United States roar to global dominance, and claim the top spot.

* in the PICK EITHER spots only one of the answers following it is correct. the question reads as a sentence with a drop down menu to pick the answers.

Answer 1

1. China and India, were the world’s two biggest economies.

2.China, Great Britain, India generated one-third of global output in 1850.

3. Germany, converted its booming industrial might into global leadership, and soon became the driver of the global economy.