Which was not a motivation for european exploration in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries? question options: a) the promise of trade with asia b) the desire for economic gain c) the need for a land route to china d) a spirit of curiosity

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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