nineteenth century causes of expansion of empires
Strategic
dominate a countrie with the reason that other country didnt take it
dominate a country only to make "scale" for the army ships and get more food for example
get countrie to attack other countries from differents ways
Population Growth
Tecnological Advances
Economic Benefits
Nationalism
Missionaires and Explorers
EX: England with India,Aden,Bombay
cities get biegger and they need more space
There more people to fight
More people = More food = More production = raw matirials
In 10 minutes they could kill thousands of persons
New ships won battels versus olds ones
They could get eassier and rapidly to far away countries that they want to colonise
Without nationalism idea people wouldnt fight
europeans country want to compete with their power rival, also if it brings no economic benefits
EX: Engand and France
Cheap labour
countries nedeed more raw matirials and they get cheaper from colonies
Without economical benefits, countries wouldnt make that effort
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without they it would be slower
They discover new lands or they writit in a map
It was important that the goverment suport them