In the 1900s, an arms race occurred when which two countries began to compete over the size of their navies?
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Great Britain and Italy
Italy and Snain

agriculture revolution

superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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a big one is

to appoint and regulate officers of the land and naval forces,

which caused much controversy ending the articles

establishing a new settlement &   the furs that they would bring back to france & sell