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.
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.
-Imperialist nations were interested in competing for influence without going to war.
spheres of influence
Imperialism was a term used for the colonization of underdeveloped nations. Later, in 1899, the British Poet Rudyard Kipling used the phrase of "White Man's Burden" in a poem about the United States, whom he hoped would take up the slack of European empires.
undeveloped natural resources
economis interests, military needs(mainly naval), and ultranationalist ideology
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.
Cotton and other natural resources
Imperialist nations were interested in competing for influence without going to war.
All of china