B. The shape of the empire would follow the new roots
C. There would be no change in the shape of the empire
D. The empire would be much larger
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Social Darwinism is a name given to various theories of society which emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s, and which claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics.