Imperialism is the seizure of one country or territory by a stronger one.Europeans wanted to do this to gain wealth, use it's natural resources, and hold strategic positions.
The british were a main culprit of imperialism. The british perspective of this strategy is good.They would be using another lands resources and selling them.They also thought it was good because then they would go back and sell their goods to the smaller country.They would. Be holding strategic ports to sell there items and the native people could work the land.
The African perspective of this would be the opposite of the british because they were the ones who were getting taken over. They had no representation in the government that was ruling them. They were starving because they were forced to grow cash crops such as cotton instead of food. They would have to work and be soldiers to their controlling country and then they would have to buy the goods they made and grew for alot more money.
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