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Imperialism is the policy of industrialized nations taking over less developed nations for the purpose of increasing their economic, politicla, military, and social influence. This policy 19 century.
 * CAUSES OF IMPERIALISM**
 * Raw Resources- gold, copper, spices, tea, minerals, gems and other resources.
 * People- to provide the pedal-power necessary to make things.
 * Land- gaining and retaining strategic land/ports so that the country that is controling can be maintained over the the people and resources.
 * Political- nationalism, to be the most powerful country by ruling many other countries.
 * Economical- to use other country's resources, recieve cheap labor, and have a market for their goods.
 * Religious- to spread religion.
 * Idealogical- believed that their race was better and had to civilize other people by teaching them.


 * IMPERIALISM IN EGYPT**

After the death of the great leader, Muhammad Ali, his son, Said Pasha, and grandson, Ismail Pasha, created a national debt while trying to modernize the government of Egypt and pay for the construction of the Suez Canal. But instead this debt led to a descision by Ismail to sell shares of the Suez Canal to Great Britain. In 1876, seven years after the Suez Canal opened, Great Britain and France gained control of the finances of Egypt.