How did Europeans justify the new imperialism?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. The Social Darwinist organization of humanity into a racial hierarchy with the white race at the top justified the new imperialism.
b. Europeans saw themselves as racially superior; they justified the conquest of nonwhite peoples, who were considered racially inferior, as the logic of survival of the fittest at work.
c. The new imperialism was also justified in terms of nationalism: Great nations had to have colonies.
d. The idea of White Man's burden cloaked imperial conquest in the rhetoric of moral obligation and justified colonization as a civilizing mission.
e. Missionaries saw colonization as a way to spread Christianity.
f. Colonies were also justified in economic terms: They were sources of raw materials as well as markets for industrial goods.
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