Three main reasons- Economic(They could increase mercantilism) - Defense ( Create a defensive buffer for England) - Charity ( Let the poor and the debtors in overcrowded prisons come to Georgia.)
And they wanted to become eshays
for the wealth
to expand their empire and get resources.
Power, Control, Religion, Cheap Abundant Land, and Personal Reasons
Colonization
The six reasons for exploration are curiosity, trade and wealth, power and glory, religion, science and technology, and conquest and colonization.
Find more material to support industrialize, and market to sell their product.
Strategic Military influence coupled with increased economic strength.
-Better Weapons (Guns, cannons) -Horses -Diseases brought from Europe killed millions of natives (Europeans were immune) -Disunity in the empires
Other European countries were torn by religious and political conflicts.
Other European countries were torn by religious and political conflicts.
Good Army Already a christian nation
1)Colonization of Africa was more economical than political reasons, while other nations were colonized more for political reasons. 2) Africa was more illiterate and ingnorant and it was eady to colonize it with the European enticements, easier than the other countries. 3)Africa had no proper religion as it was in India or China. Hence conversion was another reason of entering the continent and then slowly colonizing it which was easier than other countries.