Thadeus+B.

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__What is imperialism__ ? Imperialism is a policy of extending control or authority over foreign entities as a means of acquisition and/or maintenance of empires, either through direct territorial conquest or through indirect methods of exerting control on the politics and/or economy of other countries. The term is often used to describe the policy of a country in maintaining colonies and dominance over distant lands, regardless of whether the country calls itself an empire.
 * There are sevral types of reasons for imperialism.
 * imperalism was econmic intrest that was the best of the econmy buy sell goods for profit.
 * millitary revoultion and so one we needed resources and would take them by any means**.