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• Imperialism


  Policy of extending authority over another country or people, often through military force or political and economic control
• Colonialism


  Policy of extending authority over another territory and people, often imposing their own religion, culture, economics and politics onto the indigenous people
• Reasons for nations/countries to expand

  • God (spread of religious beliefs, humanitarian work through church)
  • Gold (resources, labour, land and trade routes, luxury goods)
  • Glory (national pride, spread of 'superior' culture, power, military power)
• Revolution


  A fundamental change in power or organisational structures, that takes place in a relatively short period of time
• Industrial revolution


  Fundamental change in the ways of production, from human labour to machines
• Period of the industrial revolution

  1760s to 1840s
• Changes caused by the industrial revolution

  • Transformed most agriculture economies to become manufacturing economies as they are more efficient
• Reasons why the industrial revolution started in Britain

  • Political stability (governmental policies made it easy for commerce to take place and taxes were low)
  • Geographical location (ideally placed for trade & had a mature sea-trade, building up colonies to provide cheap raw materials and sold to European markets)
  • Rise in population (population rose dramatically, caused by more and better food and health care and resulted in higher demand for everything)
  • Agricultural revolution (increase in food production, farming became more profitable, land owners had spare cash to support other projects)
  • Raw materials (raw materials were in abundance from colonies, transportation made easier to transport raw materials across Britain with the steam engine)