Between the 1870s and 1900, Africa faced European imperialist aggression, diplomatic pressures, military invasions, and eventual conquest and colonization. At the same time, African societies put up various forms of resistance against the attempt to colonize their countries and impose foreign domination. By the early twentieth century, however, much of Africa, except Ethiopia and Liberia, had been colonized by European powers.
The European imperialist push into Africa was motivated by three main factors, economic, political, and social. It developed in the nineteenth century following the collapse of the profitability of the slave trade, its abolition and suppression, as well as the expansion of the European capitalist Industrial Revolution. The imperatives of capitalist industrialization—including the demand for assured sources of raw materials, the search for guaranteed markets and profitable investment outlets—spurred the European scramble and the partition and eventual conquest of Africa. Thus the primary motivation for European intrusion was economic.
The correct answer is "C"
The key period in relation to important food exchange is between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. Throughout this period, Marco Polo's trips to the Far East took place, as well as the series of geographical expeditions and colonial enterprises initiated by Portuguese navigators and which continued with the voyages to America that Christopher Columbus began in 1492. The exchange of Food between Europe and America was given from the time of colonization and is not one of the causes of the independence revolutions in Latin America.
