Imperialism In The 19th Century Essay

The expansion of a powerful country into a weaker nation with the purpose of taking over, is known as Imperialism. During the fifteenth through nineteenth century, imperialism was at its peak, countries all over the world had the same goal, to take over weaker nations and gain political, social and economical power from them. The powerful country leaders did this for the well being of their countries and its people. But with that came the destruction of developing nations. Developing nations were given a small amount of money or made a treaty with the powerful country, but eventually the powerful country would completely take over the developing nation by military force, therefore breaking the treaty. Imperialism was not beneficial for developing …show more content…
During the 1840`s the idea of one race being superior compared to another came into place. Theorists such as Count Joseph Arthur believed that race was the “ most important index of human potential”. His beliefs encouraged other “racist thinkers” to express their opinions and thoughts about this so called ‘scientific racism’. Scientific racism is the belief that you can use science to justify racism, this lead to classification of races. “ Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, racist, thinkers sought to identify racial groups on the basis of skin color, bone structure, nose shape, cranial capability, and other physical characteristics” ( Bentley and Ziegler). As a way to defend themselves from the public, racist scientists stated that there’s a great barrier between skin color and other physical differences from the Europeans. At the time, Europe was by far the most successful and able to take any land they wanted because of their strong army; this lead them to believe that they are the greatest nation and everyone else is to learn from them. Racial divides occurred in developing nations due to