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Reasons For European Imperialism

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In the beginning West Africa have traded goods like gold, slaves, sugar, and many more with European colonies. West Africa and the European colonies had a good run until the 1800’s. In 1884-1885 there was an important event called the Berlin Conference and this conference was lead by the European colonies to get some parts of Africa. Africa was not invited to this meeting and this caused tension between the colonies and Africa. This caused European colonies to take over some parts of Africa. There was three motives for European imperialism in Africa and they were economic, social, and political. However, the most important motive for European imperialism in Africa was economic. One of the driving forces behind European imperialism …show more content…

The reason why the primary driving force behind European imperialism was economic is because of the use of resources. In document D a chart is shown of how the European colonies benefited from Africa by the resources African states made. This is an economic motive because it shows how many resources the European colonies gained just by owning a state from Africa. This also connects to the Industrial Revolution because Africa is making goods to the European colonies and during the Industrial Revolution people made goods for other people to buy. Although both did sell goods, this leads into document E. In document E it explains another cause to why European imperialism was a economic motive. This cause is markets and money. In document E it shows how Great Britain benefited from South Saharan Africa for their exports. Great Britain gained the most money in 1900 due to its high number of imports and exports. Whatever resources Saharan Africa made, they would not benefit from it. This happened to some states in Africa because they were controlled by the European colonies. The last reason why economic is the main cause of European imperialism on Africa is because of new resources. In document C a chart is shown of what type of technology is introduced. All of these resources were developed only for the European colonies. The reason why it was only made for European colonies is because so Africa will not try to fight back since the colonies had new and improved sources of technology. For example: If one of the colonies try to take over a state in Africa and one of their men catch malaria, they would quickly treat it since they have a treatment for it, as for African states they would be sick and then die since they do not have the treatment for it. They will then be weak and fail their plan to be independent. The only reason why new technology was sprung into the European colonies was so that

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The Industrial Revolution gave a reason to need imperialism. Europe was in need of the resources that Africa had. One way to obtain the resources necessary was to colonize and trade with the Africans living in the continent. For example, in order for Germany to obtain rubber and cotton from Tanganyika, they colonized the country and began trading. This led to the creation of fabrics, waterproof clothes, and tires from these materials.

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In late 1800’s the Industrial revolution started to begin. Since products were being mass produced, the clothes and other products got sold quickly and cheaply since everyone had a sufficient amount, they needed to find new customers/market so they went to Africa looking to sell their product and I thought the 3 main reasons for this Industrial revolution leading to imperialism are economics, political, and religion. In the 1800’s The Industrial Revolution led into Imperialism and Economics was one of the main causes. There are many reasons to back this claim up to like in (Document B) “Purely financial considerations also characterized the new imperialism.

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What was the driving force behind European Imperialism in Africa? Between 1500 and 1800 the Europeans knew  little about the interior of Africa their presence was to buy and sell slaves for pots, cloth, and weapons and set sail to America. Late as 1870 ten percent of Africa was under Europeans control and most was along edges by 1914 ninety percent of Africa was in control four years later.  Due to the countries that held African colonies in 1914 that involved the British, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spain, and Belgian. France and Britain were the main  conquer in African colonies, because there conqueror of land in Africa.

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European contact with sub-Saharan Africa around the 1500’s was not mutually beneficial because they had different needs. The economic exchanges and political relationships were based off of European’s relations with the Upper class of Africa, however not the majority of Africa. Due to the massive expansion of Europe, they wanted to continue to grow, and the only way to do that was to open trading ports all around the world. In the end, Europe benefited from trading with Africa and they are the ones who ended up

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Europeans saw Africa as a weak country with many benefits and resource they can make profit of. Africa had many valuable metals at the time that they can use to send back because they were going through the Industrial Revolution. Africa did not have advance weaponry or huge armies like Europe did. The primary driving forces for Imperialism in Africa was economic,political and industrial reasons. Political reason was a main driving force for Imperialism in Africa because it was a moral boost.

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