What are the military benefits of having colonies

Industrialized countries could produce large amounts of goods. They had to sell the goods somewhere and they felt that the colonies made good captive markets in which to sell. Colonies could benefit imperial countries economically.

southerners, for their part, considered brown a terrorist. they felt threatened by northerners' deification of brown and worried about the potential for other, similar armed insurrections.

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b or c im pretty sure