How are centuries counted? • our calendar (the gregorian calendar) starts at a. d 1 (the approximate year of christ’s birth).
• example- 1st century = a. d 1 to a. d 100
• rule #1: centuries start with the first year and stop at the next 100-year mark.
• rule #2: take the numbers at the beginning and add one to find the number of the century.

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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i am 99% sure that the increase of goods was because of nafta nafta stands for the north american free trade agreement to lift tariffs