Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why did Britain want an Empire
- Trade
- Trade could be closley controled
- British Merchants
could trade all over the
globe
- Easier to trade more
money more jobs
- Raw Materials
- Don't have raw materials
- They were cheaper
- Coca, rubber, wool, wheat, tea
are all raw materials from other
countries
- Religion
- To civilise native people
- Spread Christianity
- Missionares convert people to
Christianity
- Power
- To control the world
- To own more of Africa than
other places
- European countries
competing for power. Have
lots of power superioity.
- Adventure
- Competing with explorores to find
a new country
- People keen for adventure.
- People where interested in following
adventures.
- Security
- A small island needs to back up if it
gets invaded ports
- Transport to avoid rough sea.
- Colonies provided people to work cheaply and fight for
the country that controlled them