Imperialism

When comparing the 4 cases of Imperialism that we talked about in class, India, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast India, there are a lot of similarities. First of all, when overthrowing another country or empire, they were all after one thing; the natural resources of the country they were overthrowing. When they ran out of resources they would travel to different countries abundant in that certain resource, like Britain did with India for cotton. Also, sometimes the domination was to gain more respect, to be the first to overthrow that specific country, to gain "glory", as Mr. Coyle put it. Also, in some cases they were trying to spread God, or at least used God as an excuse to go into a different country. Strong countries would overthrow the weaker countries mostly by bringing armies, or by changing the economy. Sometimes countries would change culturally, like in the case of India. In all cases that we studied, the domination brought on new leadership. In India and Southeast Asia, there was a case of hunger and better school and health care.