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it became necessary for European industrialized nations to expand their markets globally in order to sell products that they could not sell domestically on the continent. ... The economic gains of the new imperialism were limited, however, because the new colonies were too poor to spend money on European goods.
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i dont know but i found it on google
https://www.tamaqua.k12.pa.us/cms/lib07/PA01000119/Centricity/Domain/119/TheAgeofImperialism.pdf
Geography played a critical role in the economic development of New York, Boston, and Charleston, since all of these cities were located on the Atlantic Ocean and had protected harbors, that allowed for unprecedented levels of trade with both other states and other nations.
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