What was one reason that european countries began to lose control of their colonial empires after world war ii?
a. they no longer needed the natural resources found in the colonies.
b. leaders of colonizing nations rejected the idea of imperialism.
c. japan retained military control of former colonies in asia.
d. colonies were too costly to maintain and defend.

D. Colonies were too costly to maintain and defend

Explanation:

After the World War II, there was a big wave of gaining independence among the African and Asian countries. These countries were colonies of the Western European colonial powers, such as the British Empire and France. The World War II though left these countries in ruins, economically badly damaged, and with depleted military forces. There focus was to rebuilding their countries, so they were no longer economically and military powerful to maintain the colonies, thus they started to grant them independence, which resulted in lot of new countries and significant change of the political map of the world.

explanation:

with the profits from the european sales, merchants purchased europe's manufactured  goods, including tools and weapons. then the merchants shipped those manufactured  goods, along with the  american  sugar and rum, to west africa where they were bartered for  slaves.

the arab empire adopted the muslim religion as their main belief. arabs would influence the people from the territories they invaded towards islam (the muslim belief).

nevertheless, throughout the history of the arab empire, rulers brought intellectual individuals from other religions to their centers of learning. these other foreigners included jews, christians, greeks, persians, and indians.   these resulted in the adoption of important knowledge developed by these cultures by the arabic empire. for example, the works of aristotle were translated from greek to arab and indian scientists brought the numerical concept of "zero" to the arabs.

nowadays, 93% of the arab population is muslim, which at the same time is subdivided in sects including the sunni, zaini, alawi, shia. the remaining 7% is composed mainly of christians.