Question: When did the country that controlled the world at the end of the 1800s take control of the country where the most australopithecus fossils have been found?

<P0-S0> in 2013 it was found that the ministry of defence had overspent on its equipment budget by £6.5bn on orders that could take up to 39 years to fulfil. <P0-S1> the ministry of defence has been criticised in the past for poor management and financial control, investing in projects that have taken up to 10 and even as much as 15 years to be delivered. <SEP> <P1-S0> the principle of faunal succession is based on the appearance of fossils in sedimentary rocks. <P1-S1> as organisms exist at the same time period throughout the world, their presence or (sometimes) absence may be used to provide a relative age of the formations in which they are found. <P1-S2> based on principles laid out by william smith almost a hundred years before the publication of charles darwin's theory of evolution, the principles of succession were developed independently of evolutionary thought. <P1-S3> the principle becomes quite complex, however, given the uncertainties of fossilization, the localization of fossil types due to lateral changes in habitat (facies change in sedimentary strata), and that not all fossils may be found globally at the same time. <SEP> <P2-S0> Between 1815 and 1914, a period referred to as Britain's ``imperial century ''by some historians, around 10,000,000 square miles (26,000,000 km) of territory and roughly 400 million people were added to the British Empire. <P2-S1> Victory over Napoleon left Britain without any serious international rival, other than Russia in Central Asia. <P2-S2> Unchallenged at sea, Britain adopted the role of global policeman, a state of affairs later known as the Pax Britannica, and a foreign policy of`` splendid isolation''. <P2-S3> Alongside the formal control it exerted over its own colonies, Britain's dominant position in world trade meant that it effectively controlled the economies of many countries, such as China, Argentina and Siam, which has been described by some historians as an ``Informal Empire ''. <SEP> <P3-S0> Then, in 1997, an almost complete Australopithecus skeleton with skull was found in the Sterkfontein caves of Gauteng, South Africa. <P3-S1> It is now called ``Little Foot ''and it is probably around three million years old. <P3-S2> It was named Australopithecus prometheus which has since been placed within A. africanus. <P3-S3> Other fossil remains found in the same cave in 2008 were named Australopithecus sediba, which lived 1.9 million years ago. <P3-S4> A. africanus probably evolved into A. sediba, which some scientists think may have evolved into H. erectus, though this is heavily disputed. <SEP> <P4-S0> Following the defeat of the Boers in the Anglo - Boer or South African War (1899 -- 1902), the Union of South Africa was created as a dominion of the British Empire in terms of the South Africa Act 1909, which amalgamated the four previously separate British colonies: Cape Colony, Natal Colony, Transvaal Colony, and Orange River Colony. <P4-S1> The country became a self - governing nation state within the British Empire, in 1934 following enactment of the Status of the Union Act. <P4-S2> The dominion came to an end on 31 May 1961 as the consequence of a 1960 referendum, which legitimised the country becoming a sovereign state named Republic of South Africa. <P4-S3> A republican constitution was adopted.