The main reason europe colonized africa was its need for

raw materials

laborers

new ecosystems

warm climates

raw materials

Explination:

The race for Africa was the invasion, territorial division, colonization and the annexation of African territories during the period of the New Imperialism, between the 1880s and the beginning of the First World War, which involved France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, Belgium and Spain, justified in different claims of these countries.

Sub-Saharan Africa, one of the last regions of the world largely unaffected by "informal imperialism" and "civilization," was also attractive to European powers for economic and racial reasons. During a time when the trade balance of Great Britain showed a growing deficit, with the continental markets shrinking and increasingly protectionist due to the Great Depression between 1873 and 1896, Africa offered the United Kingdom, Germany, France and other countries a an open market from which a large surplus would be harvested: a market that would buy more of the metropolis than it sold in total.The United Kingdom, like most other industrial countries, had begun to have an unfavorable trade balance (which was counteracted, anyway, by the investment income of their colonies).

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every society, in order to meet the needs of it's people, has to answer three basic questions:

- what should we produce?

- how should we produce it?

- for whom should we produce it?

this questions must be answered in order to, option b, aid in production decisions.

every country can't produce everything, no matter how rich their land is. it may be a matter of technology, resources or geographical conditions. so, these three questions must be resolved in order to get the most of the production of each land.

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