European Imperialism Dbq Essay

European Imperialism should be one of the most important event occur in our history.European global expansion had actually begun in the fifteenth century, but the process greatly accelerated in the nineteenth century.For the 300 years between 1500~1800 European Imperialism had occur in Africa. Also there was various of driving force behind it which changed our history.There were lots of driving force which led to European Imperialism . But I believe that the main driving force was Economic.
One of the driving force behind European Imperialism should be Economy.Europeans gained lots of benefits from making lots of colonies and one of the benefits were economy had improved a lot compare to before.As we could see in Document D European country had exported resources and used for Industrial and Economic uses. This shows that resources from Africa had improved Europe's economy rapidly. Also this would may
have affect on Industrial Revolution which happened in 1840. This would have affected on Industrial revolution because as the document says these materials were directly related to Industrials.To sum up economy would be one of the main driving force because europeans lifted their economic by conquering Africa.According to Document E at 1854 the import from Africa was larger than export, but after 1900 the export had increased and overcome import from africa. This graph shows that at beginning British didn't have actually earning a lot, in fact they were actually losing moneys. But after 50 years the exports turn out to increased a lot since 1854 and overcome import. This had improved Britain's economy a lot since 1854.To sum up economy would be one of the main driving force because europeans lifted their economic by conquering Africa.
Some expert might state that technology was the primary driving force behind European Imperialism in Africa.
To illustrate, Most of the invention in this chart was invented 19th century and the uses of the inventions were to help europeans to make more african colonies. (Document C).Given the evidence, it is logical that because european wanted to have more colonies, European started to invent invention which would help them to invade africa. Which also means that technology had improved a lot since European Imperialism started.However, technology were able to improve because European’s economy were very solid. For example, Document E shows that Britain has gained lots of economic benefit from Imports and Exports from Africa.This evidence shows that because of economic bases were strong Europeans were able to improve technology. Also the disparity rate of the wealth between Africa and Europe were very apart ,which created a huge gap of technology between two continent.Which also means that if the economy wasn't very acceptable the technology were not able to
improve.

The two main driving force behind imperialism were economic and National Pride.As it is written on body paragraph it should be economic and national pride because these two had lots of influence on Imperialism. Even Though some might say technology was the primary driving force, because there were solid economy bases the technology were able to improve.I also believe that European Imperialism had negative influence on racism on nowadays.