How Imperialism Changed the World

Positive Changes

1. imperialism was responsible for spreading the positive elements (i.e., health, education, welfare, etc.) of more advanced countires to the less developed ones in the 18th and 19th centuries.
2. increased power and wealth of nations doing the colonizing
3. increased world trade, and in relation, the trade of the country being colonized

Negative Changes

1. Whole cultures wiped out by assimilation
2. Changed the technology of war, making it easier and mroe convenient
3. It eventually led up to WW1