COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM 1870 1914
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national security in times of war
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ports to resupply (food and fuel)
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gain understanding of new cultures
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to gain prestige and more power
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Detailed explanation-1: -These colonies would provide England with valuable materials, like metals, sugar and tobacco, which they could also sell to other countries. The colonies also offered money-making opportunities for wealthy Englishmen and provided England’s poor and unemployed with new places to live and new jobs.
Detailed explanation-2: -India, Britain’s most valuable and populous possession, achieved independence in 1947 as part of a larger decolonisation movement, in which Britain granted independence to most territories of the empire.
Detailed explanation-3: -In fact, India was often considered to be Britain’s most important colony from an economic standpoint and as a result was referred to as the ‘Jewel in the Crown’. The economic importance of India to Britain is heavily related to the emergence of the Industrial Revolution in England.
Detailed explanation-4: -Some nations did not have enough raw materials to support their industrialization and looked to other lands to find them. Expanding outside of its borders also allowed a country to enter foreign markets for the purpose of selling industrial goods.