100 POINTS Answer the following in at least 5-8 complete sentences.

In your own words, provide a definition for the term imperialism that addresses the four different arguments about the causes and values of imperialism.
First argument: Does Imperialism pay?
Second argument: Imperialism is the nature of human beings.
Third argument: Strategy and security of the region.
Fourth argument: Moral grounds- the spread of religion.

First arguement:The first group contains economic arguments and often turn around the question of whether or not imperialism pays. Those who argue that it does point to the human and material resources and the outlets for goods, investment capital, and surplus population provided by an empire.

second arguement:A second group of arguments relates imperialism to the nature of human beings and human groups, such as the state. ... Imperialism for them is part of the natural struggle for survival. Those endowed with superior qualities are destined to rule all others. The third group of arguments has to do with strategy and security.

third arguement:National Partners Blog, Washington Report. According to a report in November's National Defense Magazine they are biological weapons, nuclear attacks, cyberattacks, climate change and transnational crimes such as drug trafficking and arms smuggling.

fourth arguement:But we know the broad outlines: the world's major religions spread through imperial conquest and forced conversion; through cultural exchange of ideas and the adaptation of far-off beliefs to local customs, practices, and rituals; through migrant and diaspora communities moving across the globe.

in 550 b.c.e. cyrus the great, the leader of the persians, conquered the medes and united the iranian people under one ruler for the first time. cyrus became the first king of the persian empire and went on to establish one of the largest empires in world.

answer:

it caused mass african migration, african populations to grow, african empires to topple, and racism against slaves to emerge.