It was all based around trade: protecting trade routes and links in order to have the best economy possible.
It was not planned it just evolved like that.
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Well Japan was a imperial power and was probable the most powerful. great Britain was also an imperial power in the area.
Surviving
great britains emergence as a major naval power
France was the second largest imperial power, after the United Kingdom.
America wanted to become an imperial power because they were mad at the King.
The Meiji restoration turned Japan in to a modernized imperial power.
Assimilation is the word for the policy of an imperial power that attempts to absorb colonies culturally and politically. The former British Empire is an example of an imperial power.
Great Britain
The British Empire was an imperial power in Malaysia. At one point, Japan was also an imperial power in Malaysia.
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