- Industrial revolution
- European countries were looking for new markets to sell their industrialized goods and to procure new resources
- Age of Exploration
- Many products from the east went to the west
- Many European nations embarked on an alternate trade route
- Land route was very tedious and they wanted access to luxury products.
- Started exploring alternative routes, hence the name ‘Age of Exploration’
- Imperialism: Policy of economic control
- Colonialism: Policy of both economic and political control
- The British crown took control of India in 1858
- Only imperial control before 1857