Europe Motives for Colonization

Europe Motives for Colonization

Why did Europe want colonization so bad? Europe offered people chance to own land, religious freedom, and a better opportunity. A lot of people didn’t want to leave home but needed to because there was a job in Europe. The leaders wanted natural resources that were scarce their and also wanted cheap labor. Those natural resource were gold, silver, raw materials and markets for their products. They also wanted to build their empire and increase gory to their kingdom. Some people also escaped religious prosecution by going over to Europe.

They first did it not out of mercantilism ideology but as a way of flexing their muscles. It showed worldly power, the more land you had more powerful. It showed others that you were significant to be left alone, the beginning of imperialism. Nothing stays perfect many armies became less privatized and were more state owned. And people had to gather natural resources for their country, so I believe it was mercantilism.

Europeans had strong governments, armies and nearly unlimited resources, plus a lot of money. This definitely helped them overpower other nations because the main goal was to have as much power of the world, to prove they could colonize and were the best and most powerful. They made a poem about them called “The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling. So things were not perfect and the Europeans did it for their own gain not the people. They just made them thing that.