The correct answer is convert gold and silver to goods.
It did make it self sufficient and it encouraged having more colonies because it made it possible to use the resources of the colonies in order to be self sufficient. In order to find colonies you had to explore so it had to be supported too.
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The Dark Ages were a period of great upheaval, constant war, horrendous plague, and stagnant cultural growth. But through these difficult centuries new ideas and a new culture was born. And in today's world we still feel the effects of these changes that were brought about during these Dark Ages
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God had created a rational universe that could only be understood through reason.
Its the Gold Rush which occured in 1848.
