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1. Trade for luxuries such as spices, silk, tea and porcelain. Later trade in manufactured goods and raw materials.

2. Gold the main driving force behind much Spanish and ancient Roman imperial expansion

3. Raw materials (including foodstuffs) which as industrialisation picked up pace became became more widespread. Commodities such sugar and rubber for example, can only be grown in warmer climates.

4. National rivalries

5. Ideology (e.g. USSR and US) and religion both Christianity (European empires) and Islam (Ottoman Empire)

6. Militarism the need for overseas garrisons and bases as to control and protect trade.

7. over population the need for new colonies

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