HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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Question
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To extract the natural resources of foreign nation
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Civilize & educate other nations
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End the Slave Trade
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Spread Christianity
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the late 1800’s, economic, political, and religious motives prompted these nations to expand their influence over other regions, each with a goal to increase their power across the globe. The Industrial Revolution of the 1800’s created a need for natural resources to fuel newly invented machinery and transportation.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the 1800s, European nations acquired great wealth and power from both the natural resources of the lands they conquered and the forced labor of the people from whom they took the land. Imperialists used ideas from eugenics and Social Darwinism to justify their conquests.
Detailed explanation-3: -What are the Five Motives for Imperialism? The conquering and occupying of countries around the world was driven by five main motives: exploratory, economic, political, ideological, and religious.