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Imperialism- The need for countries to expand their influence. Militarism- Countries wanting to build up their militaries, placing importance in them. Nationalism- Placing importance in country, believing the country is the best. Nationalism made all of the involved countries believe they were the best; excessive national pride. Militarism had them place great importance in the military, which caused many countries to build very large militaries (and the want to use them). Imperialism made these countries want to expand their influence. In other words, powerful countries expanded influence until they began to clash with each other. Because they had excessive pride and large militaries, they were more than happy to resort to violence in order to solve their differences.
By outnumbering them on population, technology and, maybe most important, military.
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It enabled countries to afford large armies. Apex
The colonies in the Americas were all about sugar and tobacco (and cotton, but you can't smoke or drink that.).India of course was primarily famous for its tea (amongst other things).Presumably Africa and Australia were colonised as broad swathes of land on which to raise cattle for milk.Or for a more serious answer: What motivates anything? Money.
Because they conquered most of China.
The Islamic Empire became powerful by conquering large swathes of territory from severely weakened and unprepared empires. It then put the conquered peoples to use in becoming the vanguard of subsequent conquests.
An empire grows by claiming more land around it. This is generally accomplished by conquering the neighboring countries, city-states, or regions, and making them part of the empire. New land can be acquired peacefully as well through treaties and alliances.
Because they could grow food, they no longer had to move from lace to place. Instead, they had time to settle and build large cities.
Competition to develop strong economies and build large empires.
Both empires grew too large to protect.
the British centennial empire
They weren't strong enough to conquer any empires or form an empire.
The problem that all four empires had after the fall of summer was that it was difficult for one person to control such a large area.
Eastern Europe
Byzantine
so that she will not have power for only her country but export it to other countries to obtain foreign exchange