Jinwoo Park History CPE Period 6 Weiss/Conde 9/23/2024. Many empires throughout history have used Imperialism, and their reason for Imperialism was mostly Power and Religious Motives. Imperialism is the creation of empires by a stronger country by taking over other countries or territories. Imperialism led to the creation of empires so large that the sun never set upon them. Imperialism made countries like Africa suffer greatly in destruction, Europeans enslaved people for labor and took away the lands of many tribes and empires. The factors that drove the Europeans to spread their empires were economic and exploratory. The first factor that drove Europeans to spread their empire was economics. The Europeans had a very wealthy economy and it was important for them to keep it that way and accumulate more wealth for their economy to be stable. But they were running …show more content…
In Source A it quotes, “It is necessary for wealthy countries where capital is plentiful and accumulates fast. Both demand for labor and the opportunity for capital investment depend on the foreign market”(Source A). The evidence proves my claim because since wealthy countries need wealth to grow fast, they need labor and depend on the foreign market. And if they go and conquer other countries, then they will be able to enslave the people of the country, which will help grow the money of the Europeans. The Europeans with their wealthy economy needed to keep their economy afloat and well kept or it would collapse. Their markets were full and they had to create markets in other