IMPERIALISM What was? This was the conquest and occupation, at the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, of territories (colonies) by some develop countries. • Themain cause of colonial imperialism was the development of finance capitalism. •...
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IMPERIALISM What was? This was the conquest and occupation, at the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, of territories (colonies) by some develop countries. • Themain cause of colonial imperialism was the development of finance capitalism. • Thedesire of European countries to possess colonies for What were prestige and the need to control strategic locations. its causes? • Growth of the European population and promotion of emigration to the colonies. • Scientific development required geographic expeditions to territories that had not been widely explored. • Thebelief in the primacy of the white people, to bring culture and Christianity.
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