Zackary+M.

Zack Myers  
 * **the process whereby powerful groups try to extend their power and increase their wealth by bringing ever more of the world under their domination**
 * **There are several reasons why the European nations competed with each other to gain colonies in Africa. They all wanted to gain power and prestige. The more territory that they were able to control in Africa the more powerful and important they thought they could become.** (Rosenfeld, Erwin and Harriet Geller)

__**portugals imperialism** __   __**Fun Facts ** __  
 * The colonisation of Africa is often described as a mass scramble as European nations tried to gain as much territory as they could. Foremost amongst these nations were the likes of Britain, Germany and France. As a result the role of Portugal is often ignored.**
 * Ignoring Portugal's Empire though is to do it an injustice, and Portugal was one of the first European nations to set out to colonise the world. This, back in the fifteenth century meant colonising South America, but at the same time trading bases were also set up in Africa, in places such as Mozambique. Portugal would benefit for over three hundred years from their colonies in South America but by the nineteenth century they had lost their territories. The state saw that there was only one place left to look for expansion, and so Portugal too scrambled for land in Africa.** (Tim Harry)
 * **- IT WAS MOSTLY DORMANT IN THE WEST DURING MOST OF THE MIDDLE AGES.**
 * **- IT FLOURISHED DURING THE AGE OF EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY (1450-1650), PARTICULARLY IN THE AMERICAS AND PARTS OF ASIA.**
 * **- A GENERAL DECLINE OCCURRED IN IMPERIALISM DURING THE AGE OF METTERNICH, WITH GOVERNMENTS CONCENTRATING PRIMARILY ON INTERNAL PROBLEMS**