1) the use of direct military force, economic spheres of influence, and annexation
2) Nations that resisted growth or expansions in their territory led to widespread genocide and ethnic cleansing. New religions were forced upon and native belief was discredited.
3) There were new crops; tools and farming methods, which helped, increase food production. These changes meant less death to smaller colonies, and overall improve the state of living. They now could live longer and have better sanitation compared to before.
4) In 1884, the Berlin Conference was convened to discuss African colonization, with the aim of setting up international guidelines for making claims to African land to avoid conflict between European powers.
5) Social Darwinism, the theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature.
6) the imposition by one usually politically or economically dominant community of various aspects of its own culture onto another nondominant community
7) serious consequence of imperialism was also the death and destruction of millions of people who were trapped, bought, and sold as slaves or turned into laborers who worked for very little pay
8) introduced improved medical care
