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1. What does a Mother Country do with
the raw materials they get from their
colonies?

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Mercantilism was a system in which a mother country only traded with their colonies. The colonies would produce and sell raw materials to the mother country. The mother country would make manufactured goods out of the raw materials and sell them back to the colonies for a profit.