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IMPERIALISM
The causes
Imperial expansion
was mainly a result of
the rise of finance capitalism
The increase in production
forced industrialised countries such as:
Great Britain
to look for new markets outside Europe
where they could find
new sources of raw materials
cheap sources of energy
and sell
manufactured goods
invest capital
Germany
international prestige
was also important to control strategic locations
to gain greater
mobility
in the case of armed conflict
security
The growth of the population in Europe and the use of machinery in factories
caused high levels of unemployment
and many people emigrated to the colonies to look for work
to avoid possible social conflict
some governments encouraged emigration to the colonies
Scientific progress
required geographic expeditions
to discover:
new plants
minerals
animals
to unknown areas of the world such as
the African continent
the supremacy of white people
their duty to bring European
culture
values to indigenous societies
that were considered to be less civilised
Christian
The colonial empires
The European powers
colonised
most of Africa
Oceania
Asia
The United States
Japan
the largest colonial empires
belonged to:
France
who competed with each other to gain control
of colonies in Africa and Asia
Great Britain
The other industrialised countries
began building their colonial empires between
1870 and 1914
Imperialism
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries
a number of developed countries took control
of other regions and lands all over the world
Colonies
formed part of the various colonial empires
The objective
political control
of the colonies
economic exploitation
