Imperialism

• Reasons for imperialism


  • Need for resources and markets
  • Nationalism - global power struggle among European nations
  • Westernization
  • Belief in European superiority
  • Government
  • Culture
  • Religion
  • Social Darwinism
• Economic stability


  No major wars
• After exploration


  $$$$ (economic benefits)
• Start of imperialism
• At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the mid 1700s, the world's human population grew by to 700 million
• It would reach one billion in 1800
• The Black Plague reduced the world population by about 75 million people in the late 1300s
• The birth of the Industrial Revolution altered medicine and living standards
• In only 100 years after the onset of the Industrial Revolution, the world population would grow 100 percent to two billion people in 1927 (about 1.6 billion by 1900)
• Today 7.7 Billion