Virginia History & Social Science Standards of Learning 2015
Grades 9-12
Learning Domain: World History II
Standard: The student will asses the European colonization and imperialism on Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Australia.
Essential Understandings:
Industrial nations in Europe needed natural resources and markets to expand their economies.
These nations competed to control Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands in order to secure their own economic and political success.
Imperialism spread economic, political, and social philosophies of Europe and the United States throughout the world.
Resistance to imperialism took many forms, including armed conflict and intellectual movements.
Angeles, Christopher. "Motive for European Imperialism". OER Commons. Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, 20 Oct. 2022. Web. 22 Dec. 2024. <https://goopenva.org/authoring/393-motive-for-european-imperialism>.
Angeles, C. (2022, October 20). Motive for European Imperialism. OER Commons. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://goopenva.org/authoring/393-motive-for-european-imperialism.
