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- large farm lands (slaves needed)
- rich companies wanting more money
- businesses and suppliers needing products quicker
The invention of machine guns greatly influenced European states in the 19th century because it allowed them to violently colonize Africa with little-to-no resistance, since the weapons used by the native Africans could not compete.
Answer:
The knowledge left by Ancient Rome to later civilizations, languages, literature, Roman law, engineering, arts, culture, abstract, alphabet, Roman numbers.
Explanation:
Various cultural aspects that emerged in Ancient Rome were absorbed by the Germanic kingdoms that were formed in the Middle Ages, after the barbarian invasions of the 4th and 5th centuries. Many Roman cultural aspects were preserved in Medieval Europe and, from the 16th century (time of the Great Navigations and Discoveries), spread across America, Africa and some regions of Asia. The Roman legacy is a mark strongly present in Western cultures today, mainly in the legal and linguistic areas.
Many Greek communities sent people across the sea, in search of new places to farm and look for new land.