In an essay response using only the assigned text, notes provided by Professor Yedwab, lectures/discussions analyze THE REASONS FOR EUROPEAN NATIONS TO SEEK COLONIES. Include in your response information pertaining to:
an explanation of mercantilism, and how that economic system worked
discuss mercantilistic wars (include the results of the Seven Years War as part of your response
any other important information which provides the main ideas of the topic, with supporting details
You are to put the majority of the response in your own wording; if you do include quoted information from the text, the quote is to be within quotation marks, immediately followed by the citation, which must provide the TEXTS AUTHORS (FIRST TWO AUTHORS ONLY), FOLLOWED BY YEAR OF PUBLICATION, FOLLOWED BY THE EXACT PAGE(S) THE QUOTE CAME FROM, WITHIN PARANTHESES. Failure to comply with this is displaying a lack of academic integrity (plagiarism), and the assignment will receive an automatic deduction of twenty-five (25) percent of the assignments value.