16. Suppose that you were an ancient tourist who wanted to visit famous sites from the Persian wars.
a. If you traveled east out of Athens, what could you visit?
b. If you traveled west out of Athens, what could you visit?

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 historian is attempting to study how the puritans affected society in new england

this is true many people think today that blacks should be slaves also known as rasisim calling them many insults from slavery the idealogy of the south still exsist in some parts but not all