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** A. the desire for economic gain and resources **
 * 11 Describe the causes of 19th century European imperialism. **

European countries wanted to be the most powerful, in doing so the countries had war with other countries for land. That is the only way to expand their empire, because all land has already been claimed

Western European nation-states were wealthy and technologically advanced. Results of the Industrial Revolution included faster transportation, better medicine, food production, education, and standards of living. Life expectancy went up and so did the population.

European powers had a desire to be the most powerful nations in the world, so they pushed to gain new resources to use and to make advancements in traveling/trade.

All european contries wanted to be the richest and most important in Europe, so they had wars and conflicts to claim land that they believed would make them stronger and more economically efficient.

European nations were in search of raw materials they could purchase, process, and sell for more than they bought.

In their strive for resources and economic gain, Europe fought wars and did what was necessary for them to succeed. **Their desire for economic gain and resources involved raw materials and the usage of slaves. **

**B. the missionary impulse and the search for strategic advantage and national pride.** Imperialism allowed countries to stay unified under one religion, political view etc. If everybody followed the same ideas then the nation could be more powerful and be more proud of themselves. If a country is not unified then there are conflicts and people are less proud of their segregated nation.

Many of Europe's major elites found some advantages in formal, overseas expansion: huge control of trade wanted imperial support to secure overseas investments against competition and domestic political tensions.

Imperialism was encouraged by nationalism; European nations wanted to increase their power and pride by adding new colonies.

When the people of a nation win a war or country, people of the country like it and are untied as one, so nationalism occurs most of the time when this happens.

Nations with colonies were able to spread their ways of living to other places, increasing their nationalism.

When one nation takes over another, typically the nation that has control will unify the area under one religion and political view which boosts the area's nationalism and militarism if they are all for it. This allows the region to be more powerful and causes conflicts to be a lot less severe.

Nationalism was one of the most important reasons for the start of European imperialism, this was present for example in Alsace-Lorraine and in the Balkans. It was when a country or people of a country had a pride in their country and in getting back land that had been lost to ohther empires

The Europeans did whatever they needed to do to find national pride, they went through the process of nationalism.

Their religion became an impulse to move on with the colonization of the European colonies.