They devised a new economic policy to ensure the profitability of the colonies as Europeans expanded their market reach into the colonial sphere. European perceptions of wealth from the 1500s to the late 1700s were shaped by the philosophy of mercantilism. Mercantilism held that there was only a limited amount of wealth in the world, as measured in gold and silver bullions. Nations had to amass wealth in order to gain power by mining these precious raw materials from their colonial possessions. Mercantilists did not believe in free trade, arguing instead that to create wealth and improve state power, the nation should control trade. Colonies existed to strengthen the colonizing nation in this view.
<span>The conflict and unrest in Chechnya are caused by different Religions.
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They were not allowed to leave and so they had to stay
The invention of the vapor machine
According to Perry Rogers, one reason the Chinese were unsuccessful in halting the opium <span>trade was because the country had come to depend on it for revenue. </span>
