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It influences society to prioritize its needs and wants and make decisions about how to use resources.
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Answer: It effects countries after they've been decolonized as it's still taking resources away from them after leaving the control of the country up to them.
Explanation: (Hope this helps that's what I got from my History 12 course.)
The colonies were already in debt, because they had not trade, were in debt, and had a bad financial system working for their economy.
It all began like 5 million years ago, from just one cell. This cell then merged with other communities to a multicellular being, and the same evolution continued till the formation of the apes. Then Natural selection (Adaption of an organism in his environment to survive) continued this evolution over million years, till the apparition of the Homo Sapiens, or as known today, the Humans.
Some Scientifics say that the first known human Ancestor is Lucy, is 3.2 million years old fossil found in Ethiopia in 1974.
Hope this Helps! :)