East Asia, a Pacific Ocean island group.
A. Buddhism, Confucianism, and daoism
I would have to go with Europe.
A) The volume of trade between Europe and North America increased
Britain is a VERY VERY BAD PLACE for <u><em>agriculture </em></u>
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It needed colonies with very good agricultural farming land so that it could grow crops/materials and <u>sell them to make profit</u>
Also England wanted power and status so it decided to show off by taking large amounts of land also that could be used for warfare