Following the industrial revolution, many european countries sought to control foreign territories in africa and asia in order to control their natural resources and open new markets for industrial products. which term best characterizes this situation?

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well the fact it is basically a peninsula allowed trade to come from many places, thus allowing cultural diffusion to take place. india has seasonal monsoons that merchants travel back and forth from india using the monsoons wind patterns

b) the confederacy had to pay all union war expenses.