12% of the world is malnourished or starving.
They bred prolifically and when their population exceeded the capacity of their limited land to sustain them, they sent out the surplus population to seize new land and establish new city-states. So they spread right around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
I'm pretty sure this one <span>is the most accurate: </span>The colonists were anxious to pay back the debts Great Britain had obtained protecting them.
Their economy was supported by agriculture. most were artisans, merchants, or craftspersons.
