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Screenplay: For our video will discuss what imperialism is, to do this we will have youtube clips, and discussions between us. We will also talk about other places imperialism is seen. One of these places that we will try and make a connection to is in the movies, __Star Wars.__ Most of the video will be youtube clips and then us explaining them. some of the video might be narrated by one of the group members. We are using star wars as an example of mass imperialism. The jedis owned a lot of the universe and had colonies like the British Empire. I Casey Naylor approve this message.

Research: a famous british economist, J.A. Hobson and following him Lenin attributed the colonal expansions of these years to special new economic forces at work in the most industrialized nations of western and central europe. this economic explanatioin of the urge to imperialism is usually taken to mean that the basic motives were also the basest motives and that whatever political, religious, or more idealistic excuses might be made, the real impulse was always one of capitalistc greed for cheap raw materials, advantageous markets, good investments, and fresh fields of exploration.

this argument has been used to dennounce the events and to attack the men, parties and nations that took part in them

"if the consuming public in this country raised its standard of consumption to keep pace with every rise of productive powers there could be nno excess of goods or capital clamorous to use inperialism in order to find markets" it is undeiable that the search for lucrative yet secure overseas investment played a very great part in the european urge to acquire at the end of the 19th century

Lenin elaborated the argument to emphasize the current importance of finance capital rather than industrial, and the priority of the desire to find new outlets for investment rather than new markets. his tesis was "a direct continuation of the fundamental properties of capitalism in general" and that " the war of 1914 was on both side imperialist"

the new imperialism what made it seem particularly necussary to find some special reason for mode4rn imperialism was both the dramatic suddenness of its reappearance and its pre-eminence in the policies of the powers during the last quarter century

until after 1870 national policies and even more national public opinion, in most european countries had been hostile to colonies

by 1815 france had lost most of her colonial possessions in America and in the east and spain had lost her cast south american territories before that the thirteen colonies had boke away from Britain, by 1822 portugal had lost brazil

africa and eastern asia these were the only two important areas of the globe still not brought under european influence before 1870. between 1870 and 1914 the expansion of european influence and civilization over the whole of the earth and it was accomplished in an era when the realism, ruthlessness, and rivalries of european national government were exceptionally great. among the economic forces behind it, the urge to find new outlets for the "glut of capital" and fresh markets for indestrial output were in general more important than either the quist for raw materials of the factor of overpopulation

the attraction to africa and asia were that they offered many of the raq materials needed by the multiplying factories of europe: including cotton, sild, rubber, vegeablt oils, and the rarer minerals. these raw material were got by trading without political control.the quest for markets in which to sell manufactued goods was more important. but here again the political factor was no less important than the purely economic. until 1870 british mabnufacturers of textiles, machinery and hardware had found goo markets in other european lands. after 1870 Germany France, Belgium