GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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A new place to build houses.
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A new place to educate their children
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For natural resources, cheap labor, and markets.
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Because the weather was nice.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Causes of colonisation Africa seemed to be out of harm’s way and had an abundance of raw materials from which Europe could make money from. Due to cheap labour of Africans, Europeans easily acquired products like oil, ivory, rubber, palm oil, wood, cotton and gum.
Detailed explanation-2: -The European imperialist push into Africa was motivated by three main factors, economic, political, and social. It developed in the nineteenth century following the collapse of the profitability of the slave trade, its abolition and suppression, as well as the expansion of the European capitalist Industrial Revolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Europeans took over because Africa was rich in raw materials, they wanted power, and they thought their culture was superior. The driving force behind imperialism was need for resources, political competition, and technological advances.