• 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