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NINETEENTH-CENTURY CAUSES OF EXPANSION OF EMPIRES - Coggle Diagram
NINETEENTH-CENTURY CAUSES OF EXPANSION OF EMPIRES
economic benefics
Raw materials
New markets
Cheap labour
missionaries and explorers
Discovered new territories
Detailed records of places that had never been mapped before
Looking for opportunities to make themselves very wealthy
Undermined the local power structures
Technological advances
technology facilitates the expansion of empires
Europeans armed with guns, fast-firing rifles and, later, machine guns.
travel to distant lands was made easier as steam ships were faster.
medicine had advanced and doctors were more able to treat people.
strategic
Trading ships needed to be
able to take on fuel and food
Wars overseas required a reliable
coaling station to keep steam-powered
ships at sea
population growth
Increased rapidly
Europeans emigrated due to famines
nationalism
An empire was a sign of a nation´s importance and greatness
Territoriest colonized without an economic reason
The main concen was to keep others out