Imperialist nations built up their armies and navies.
spheres of influence
Imperialist nations were interested in competing for influence without going to war.
European nations
The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising of a Chinese society that had the support of the Chinese government in 1900. The Chinese had being taken advantage of by imperialist nations for decades. An international force of imperialist nations suppressed the rebellion. To add insult to injury the European, Japanese & American powers demanded damages for the cost of suppressing the rebellion.
Rudyard Kipling expressed the idea of imperialist nations helping each other through the phrase "the white man's burden," which implied that it was the duty of Europeans to civilize and uplift the non-European peoples they were colonizing. Kipling believed that imperialism was a moral undertaking, with imperialist nations providing education, infrastructure, and governance to supposedly "backward" societies in order to bring them into the modern world.
They were the European colonial powers: Spain, Portugal, Birtain, France, Germany and Belgium.
The imperialist nations have in common in the 19th century was that they were industrialized.
Imperialist nations built up their armies and navies.
Imperialist nations built up their armies and navies.
England, France, Portugal and Spain were all European imperialist nations or empires. England wanted to expand, while Spain and Portugal fought for Africa. France wanted both, along with new places and ideas.
-Imperialist nations were interested in competing for influence without going to war.
Chad was a colony of FRANCE during the Imperialist Period.
spheres of influence
Japan at the time of its opening had no imperialist ambitions. The purpose of opening japan was to use its ports as coaling stations, prevent the maltreatment of us/european sailors shipwrecked there and eventually develop it as a market. It was initially a victim of the imperialist designs of other nations (though this changed over time).
"africa has a allot of natreral recourses that their counrties didnt like dimonds" *Africa *a lot *natural *resources *countries *didn't *diamonds
undeveloped natural resources