Question: Who controlled a lot of governments and financial agents in the continent on which The Legend of the Lose was filmed at the end of the 19th century?

<P0-S0> antarctica has no indigenous population and there is no evidence that it was seen by humans until the 19th century. <P0-S1> however, belief in the existence of a terra australis—a vast continent in the far south of the globe to "balance" the northern lands of europe, asia and north africa—had existed since the times of ptolemy (1st century ad), who suggested the idea to preserve the symmetry of all known landmasses in the world. <P0-S2> even in the late 17th century, after explorers had found that south america and australia were not part of the fabled "antarctica", geographers believed that the continent was much larger than its actual size. <SEP> <P1-S0> after the war, the virginia hotel thrived under a succession of owners until, in the late 19th century, it was refurbished and renamed the new virginia. <P1-S1> in 1926, the virginia's owner—alexander t. moore—announced he would demolish the historic structure to make way for a new hotel, which would adjoin the newer stonewall jackson hotel, of which he was also owner. <P1-S2> moore demolished the virginia hotel in october 1930, but the new hotel was never built due to financial constraints caused by the great depression. <P1-S3> the lot sat empty for years, was used to house a gas station in the 1950s, and then built upon by the city of staunton for a parking garage. <SEP> <P2-S0> The plot is vaguely similar to another of Wayne's movies crossing the Mojave Desert. <P2-S1> The Roman remains of Leptis Magna in Libya were used extensively as a location for the ancient city. <P2-S2> In the script Wayne's character refers to 'Timgad' in sardonic reference to the apparent delusions of Paul's father, despite the fact this places a considerable strain on the geography of the plot. <P2-S3> The lost city of Timgad referred to in the film was actually the Leptis Magna ruins, a Roman city dating back to the 7th century B.C. <P2-S4> near Tripoli, in northwest Libya, while ``Timbuktu ''was actually in Zliten, Libya. <P2-S5> Headquarters for the film were located in Ghadames, where, according to the publicity material, citizens of the villages were employed on set, as well as some native Tuaregs, an ancient desert tribe. <P2-S6> Wayne liked the location work in Rome and Libya. <SEP> <P3-S0> The conference ushered in a period of heightened colonial activity by European powers, while simultaneously eliminating most existing forms of African autonomy and self - governance. <P3-S1> The Berlin Conference (German: Kongokonferenz or ``Congo Conference '') of 1884 -- 85 regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. <P3-S2> Called for by Portugal and organized by Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany, its outcome, the General Act of the Berlin Conference, can be seen as the formalization of the Scramble for Africa. <P3-S3> During this colonial time, the economy of Africa was re-arranged to serve Europe and Europeans, and the European industrial chain began in Africa and ended in European industrial warehouses. <SEP> <P4-S0> The sovereign state is made of three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. <P4-S1> With an area of almost , Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa, and is the 16th largest country in the world. <P4-S2> Libya has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world. <P4-S3> Libya (; ; ), officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest. <P4-S4> The largest city and capital, Tripoli, is located in western Libya and contains over one million of Libya's six million people. <P4-S5> The second-largest city is Benghazi, which is located in eastern Libya.