Answer:
Because they don't want everything out.
Explanation:
Everything was part of the colonial economic system: the overseas territories supplied raw materials to the metropolis and these often sold the manufactures they produced under a monopoly regime to their colonies. With the passage of time, these practices were banned in the different countries that carried them out. Or at least officially, since unofficially the slave trade continued well into the nineteenth century, practically until the last colonial territories obtained independence or achieved a more rigorous political status within the State than that of a mere colony.
Answer:
Yes
Explanation:
The European explorers were looking for resources and trade routes, more specifically a quick and easy water route to the East Indies since the muslim Ottoman empire blocked the middle east.