New markets for goods, new lands for natural resources. As in the case of all imperial colonies (including us when we were a British colony!), having new land has broad economic opportunities. Not only can the new land provide different resources and raw materials with which the mother country can make luxury manufactured goods, but a new colony is...
Building a Water-Filtration plant near a reservoir. As the other 3 are government run. The water filtration plant would save the citizens taxes which means more spending money. <span />
The answer is C. It did indeed clear the way for all out offensive.
Three quarters of Russian people live in the Northern European Plain.