Capital is

a. all the “gifts of nature” used to produce goods and services. 

b. wealth in the form of money or of resources that are used to produce other goods.

c. the seat of the u. s. congress in washington, d. c.

d. an economic system in which all resources are privately owned and markets determine how they are distributed.

B. Wealth in the form of money or of resources that are used to produce other goods.

Explanation:

Land, labour and capital are the major factors of production or manufacturing. Capital is inevitable for producing the goods and afford the services. It may be in the form of both money and resources (both natural and man-made). Capital is emerged since industrial revolution period which is called investments in modern era. After industrial revolution, capitalists are more important than the land and labour, deprivation of working class started when capitalist class dominated in production.

superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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