Factors Influencing Imperialism Analysis

The three main factors that influenced Imperialism Politics, Exploring, Economics, and religion. Imperialism is when a country through diplomacy or military force. This was thought by many people in this time period, to be the best way of conquering. Imperialism was usually done by setting up colonies of the world. This helped production of items become faster and cheaper.
The things influencing imperialism at this time were religion, ideological, politics, exploring, and economics.The four that stand out to me were politics, exploring, economics and religion. Exploration influenced imperialism the most. Exploration affected imperialism when the the Europeans explored Africa in need of raw materials. At this time period, raw materials were a huge source for money. This made explorers do anything to get raw materials. The person that had the greatest success was David Livingston. He explored the central part of Africa which was never done. This would become up to a 30 year journey. The reason behind this was because explorers would conquer parts of africa just to mine or deforest some areas. Exploring Africa was extremely easy and the only thing stopping it was the disease called “Malaria”. Malaria was considered “the white man’s killer”. The disease did not only …show more content…
This was shown as different political groups would take standpoints on Africa. Some groups didn't agree with what most europeans were doing. This did not stop europeans from taking over Africa in need of raw materials. Raw materials was not the only thing Europeans were looking for. Expanding how much territory a country owned was represent strength. This was politically correct but not morally correct. The idea that politics played a role in imperialism is shown when we see how most europeans took over Africa with guns just own a small part. These two were not the only things influencing imperialism in