HISTORY
IMPERIALISM ASIA
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The European nations were beginning to colonize other lands, in order to gain natural resources.
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The European nations were beginning to colonize other areas of Europe for natural resources.
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The European nations were beginning to negotiate with African nations for better trade agreements.
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The European nations were beginning to supply the United States with much needed natural resources.
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Detailed explanation-1: -European imperialism was the five-centuries-long quest by European countries to acquire territory outside of Europe. Europeans sought to have complete political control over these territories and extract their natural, low-cost resources for their own benefit.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Age of Imperialism, a time period beginning around 1760, saw European industrializing nations, engaging in the process of colonizing, influencing, and annexing other parts of the world. 19th century episodes included the “Scramble for Africa."
Detailed explanation-3: -A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically.
Detailed explanation-4: -To establish control of an area, Europeans used different techniques. Over time, four forms of colonial control emerged: colony, protec-torate, sphere of influence, and economic imperialism.
Detailed explanation-5: -Western colonialism, a political-economic phenomenon whereby various European nations explored, conquered, settled, and exploited large areas of the world. The age of modern colonialism began about 1500, following the European discoveries of a sea route around Africa’s southern coast (1488) and of America (1492).