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Nineteenth-Century causies of expansion of empires - Coggle Diagram
Nineteenth-Century causies of expansion of empires
Technological advances
Machines guns
Fast-firing rifles
Steam ships
Strategic
Small army
Individual trading ships
Large navy
Missionaries and explorers
New territories discover
Some missionaries were explorers
They were "saving souls"
Economic beneficts
Raw materials
New markets
Cheap labour
Nationalism
Importance and greatness
National pried
Imperial power
Population growth
Increased rapidly
Land shortages
Overcrowding in the cities