Trade and Power were the main reason for European interest in Asia and Africa.
<span>Specificly to gain new land, people to work on their land and do other hard labor and collect natural resources for metals, minerals and spices. </span> <span>Only Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal the United Kingdom and Spain obtained land in Asia and Africa, no Eastern European countries obtained any colonies outside Europe and neither did Greece or any country in Scandinavia, so just a few countries possessed 95% of the worlds surface during the colonial days, divided between 8 countries which sold, traded and stole colonies off of each other during that period.</span>
<span>Mark suffers mostly from bipolar depression, due to the observation of the situation that he had. Bipolar depression is the state where the patient has mood disorder that causes rapid changes in the emotional state of the person. This causes the person to experience mania and even crippling depression.</span>
English often serves as a lingua franca throughout South and Southeast Asia because the British established their powers and rules over the south and South East Asia. After World War 2, France became a lingua franca
