19th Century European Imperialism

During the late 19th century and early 20th century, there were a lot of changes happening in Europe, and many of those changes caused imperialism to rise. The industrial revolution was happening, and there many growing cities, Charles Darwin published his findings that went against everything that was written in the bible, the need for power was increasing, and there was a large disconnect between the superior race (white) and the subordinate race (African). All of the new ideas, and changes happening throughout Europe had a huge impact on why imperialism became a major problem. During this time realpolitik was growing, everyone wanted to build their nation and tighten their social order; because of this people were power-hungry. During
He described how evolution and natural selection operated; he later stated “white European men were wealthier and better because they more highly evolved than white women and people of color” (MoW, 753). Darwin also stated, “people of color or “lower races” were far behind whites in intelligence and civilization” (MoW, 753), these thoughts about how people of color were subordinate to white people caused a rise in slave labor, slave trade. These new findings gave white European men the idea that they were better than all the other people and because of that they needed to have the most power, and because of that imperialism
Because of the growth of larger cities, and the need to produce more goods, the larger countries felt a need to grow their territories as big as they could. Because, trading was becoming more population these countries needed the resources and materials to compete, this caused a wide spread demand to have as much power as possible. As the industrial revolution made it possible for imperialism to rise because of its increase in machinery and enterprise; better weapons were being made, better ships made it possible to travel to farther places. All of these new discoveries made it possible for imperialism to expand in Europe and