Imperialism is defined in the dictionary as being a "policy of acquiring empire". Although generally people associate imperialism as being the domination of a small country by a larger, more powerful country, generally to the advantage of the larger country. At the beginning of the nineteenth century most of the countries in Europe were involved in imperialism. Each country had its own motives for wanting to gain empire and these may have included any of the following reasons.
Economic Motives
One set of motives were from an economic stand point. The Industrial Revolution brought along a major shift from traditional, labor-intensive work based on agriculture to a more capital-intensive economy based on machines, specialized labor, a
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