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Empire Building Reasons - Coggle Diagram
Empire Building Reasons
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economic reasons
the three economic motives for building and expanding empires were raw materials, new markets and cheap labour.
newley conquered lands would contribute raw materials and food materials not available in the mother country, like tea from china, rubber from malaysia, bananas from ghana.
Population growth
Europe's population increased explonentially, which led to acute land shortages in the countryside and overcrowding in the cities.
Many people began to emigrate to get a better standard of living. over 1 million europoeans by 1890 were emigrating every year
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