TOPIC: NATIONS AND

EMPIRES:
Lesson objectives:
 Define the terms Nationalism and imperialism in detail.
 Give a general background to the quest for Nationalism and Imperialism.
 Identify and outline the reasons for European countries to expand aggressively.
 Identify additional factors that motivated European countries to become imperialist powers.
 List examples of countries that became imperialistic nations.
 REASONS FOR AGGRESSIVE
EXPANSION

 F actories all over Europe needed more raw materials such as cotton, metal, coal and
rubber.
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 The goods the factories produced had to marketed
to be add text elsewhere to make money.
 The major European countries set up colonies in Africa and Asia to get raw materials and
sell goods.
 Nations also established colonies to protect trade routes.
 The effort to create an empire of colonies is called Imperialism.
 ADDITIONAL FACTORS LINKED TO
IMPERIALISM:
 Closely linked to the Economic reasons for imperialism were political and
military interests.
 No one country wanted to see its neighbour gain more power or greater
wealth than it had.
 France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium to name a few
were all imperialists.
 The United States too claimed Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
 Britain was the imperialist power of all.
 By 1914, Britain had covered about a quarter of the Earth’s land surface
with a quarter of the World’s population.