HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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Question
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To help.
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To give food and clothes to.
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To send them to school so they could get good jobs.
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To educate the Africans on European way of life.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Raw materials like rubber, timber, diamonds, and gold were found in Africa. Europeans also wanted to protect trade routes. During the 1800s, Europeans moved further into the continent in search of raw materials and places to build successful colonies.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the nineteenth-and twentieth-century era of imperialism the civilizing mission was an ever-shifting set of ideas and practices that was used to justify and legitimize the establishment and continuation of overseas colonies, both to subject peoples and to citizens or subjects in the homeland.
Detailed explanation-3: -Starting in the 1880s, in what became known as the “Scramble for Africa, ‘’ European countries raced to occupy the continent, seeking economic and strategic gains. Britain established control over many parts of Africa, including Sudan and much of the south. France began to rule a large territory in the west and north.