Which economic reason was used to justify the rapid expansion of European colonies throughout the world between the 17th and 19th centuries?

europeans

Explanation:

because they could establish cheap sources of raw materials for the product of finished goods.

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explanation:

a plantation economy is an economy based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few commodity crops grown on large farms called plantations. plantation economies rely on the export of cash crops as a source of income.

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