... surplus capital in Europe so people were looking for new markets to sell their manufactured goods, without a new market the level of industrial production would go down causing problems like unemployment rates going up and social unrest at home. Also there was a specially high demand for products like tea, coffee, palm oil, and rubber, - exotic products which were only to get outside of Europe and which were regarded as luxuries. However all these economic reasons can not advocate colonisation because Europe could have just started to trade with African countries, without totally exploiting them. But this was obviously not possible because of prejudice, leading to the next great point in my essay. Social Darwinism, Darwinism states that the fittest survive, because they own special characteristics such as the ability of obtaining food in the most productive way, or special skills in combat. In continuation it states the evolution ...

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