Imperialism is a policy made for land expansion to make a country more powerful. It’s a plan to expand the country by claiming foreign territories. Imperialism leads to colonization, the occupation of foreign territories. One of the most famous colonizations was the colonization of African countries. African colonization, known as the Scramble for Africa, started in 1881, and lasted 33 years before ending in 1914. The goal of the scramble was for European countries to colonize African countries to find resources for the Industrial Revolution and to expand their empires. Europe took land from peaceful people and killed people who resisted, took resources from them which caused a downfall in GDP, and caused wars which could have been avoided.