For resources and to prove that they were powerful. Their initial holdings before WW2 were not enough to fuel the war machine it wanted to become.
The Natchez Indians. The Natchez Indians were among the last American Indian groups to inhabit the area now known as southwestern Mississippi. Archaeological evidence indicates that the Natchez Indian culture began as early as A.D. 700 and lasted until the 1730s when the tribe was dispersed in a war with the French.
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Your answer to this would be Albrecht Durer
Silk, food, things like that. also spices
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