WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -RELIGIOUS motives included the desire to spread Christianity, to protect European missionaries in other lands, to spread European values and moral beliefs, to educate peoples of other cultures, and to end the slave trade in Africa.

Detailed explanation-2: -European missionaries wanted to spread Christianity and teach it to less educated and wealthy people in Africa as one cause for imperialism-They mainly saw it as their duty to be carried out and it is commonly referred to as “The White Man’s Burden", taken from Rudyard Kipling’s poem.

Detailed explanation-3: -The reasons for African colonisation were mainly economic, political and religious. During this time of colonisation, an economic depression was occurring in Europe, and powerful countries such as Germany, France, and Great Britain, were losing money.

Detailed explanation-4: -Much of the recent Christian growth in Africa is now due to indigenous African missionary work and evangelism and high birth rates, rather than European missionaries.

Detailed explanation-5: -The major reasons for the colonization of Africa by the Europeans were the search for new markets, the need to obtain raw materials, the desire to invest surplus capital outside Europe, and the claim that Africans needed to be civilized through western education and religion.