How did economic motives change for imperialists?
A) Transportation advances meant faster access to worldwide markets and raw materials.
B) Capitalists had more large-scale profits to invest in burgeoning markets.
C) Interaction with countries of similar industrial levels meant all were operating on equal financial terms, less risk.
D) Interaction with less industrialized nations meant a larger risk and more interest in controlling the economic outcome.
E) All of these
E
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