Imperialism is the act of creating an empire, through extending a country’s power by force, often military, or forming international relations. In many cases the imperializer country reaps financial benefits and extracts resources and raw materials from the country that is colonized, leaving the natives with little to no resources or the ability to advance and develop. When, one country enters another and takes over, it silences the people living there, forcing their voices and their opinions, on how their country should be governed, to be silenced. In many cases this lack of listening to the people’s needs, by the colonizing country’s leaders, has disastrous results: destroyed economies, lives lost, and broken alliances, like the relationship between the British and the Chinese from early 1700s until around 1912.