I believe the answer is Gold.
Gold was a very hot commodity at that time because before we use paper/digital money like today, Gold was made as material to make a type of money with more intrinsic value.
The abundance of this natural resources led to many European empire came and started their colonization in AFrica.
Answer:
I think mealting pot but am not really sure
Explanation:
Who what when where and how
Sally is a hard-worker in my case.... I'm not 100% what this means but I'm sry... XD