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It opened their markets to competitive U.S. and European manufactured goods.
It reduced the number of wealthy government officials who could afford to purchase luxury goods.
It caused European engineers and other skilled workers to return home.
It eliminated Spanish and Portuguese subsidies for the development of roads and harbors.Russia
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BrazilNineteenth-century colonies were not usually intended to be settler colonies.
Nineteenth-century colonialism was inspired primarily by religious not economic motives.
Nineteenth-century colonialism generated very little violence.
Nineteenth-century colonies were largely left to govern themselves with little interference.Maxim gun
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learning more about the cultures of non-European peoples
finding new lands for large numbers of Europeans to settle in
discovering new species of animal life
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