Describe the major motivating factors for european colonialism and expansion between the 1500s and the 1800s.

One of the biggest factors why the European colonists expanded throughout many other nations was to gain power in territory and also due to the richest metals found in different other lands. as an example the Spanish colonists arrived to Mexico's territory and found lots of minerals and metals such as gold and silver.

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The problem of malnutrition in bangladesh is caused in part by "over population."hope my answer has you : )