Imperialism Virtual Center

With your group, read about imperialism before Word War I. Then, work together to answer the questions below.

1. ____________________ is when a nation takes over another nation to rule

them and take their natural resources.
2. The nation that does the taking over is called the ___________________.
3. A/an ____________________ is an area under the control of a mother
country, whose purpose is to provide resources to help the mother country.
4. A/an ____________________ is a country that rules itself but has
important matters decided by a more powerful nation.
5. All of the lands that the mother country rules including the mother country
are called a/an _______________________.
6. How were European nations able to take over other nations so easily?

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7. What purpose did colonies and territories serve? ___________________

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8. Who were the major European nations that competed for land in Africa and
Asia?
9. Imperialism led to _____________________ and ____________________.

10. Name the three major reasons that European nations wanted empires.

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11. When two empires competed for the same area of land it led to
_____________________________.

12. When nations began to fear war, they looked to form

______________________ with other nations to help protect themselves in
the event of invasion.