HIS410_Week_8_Imperialism_and_Globalism.docx Compare European imperialism to current glob

HIS410_Week_8_Imperialism_and_Globalism.docx  Compare European imperialism to current globalism. How has each changed society, both in industrialized nations and developing nations? Is the claim that globalism is a form of imperialism valid?  Option 4: Yesterdays Imperialism and Todays Globalism  Imperialism was an ideology that emerged from the economic problems of nations. The perceived solution was to expand, colonizing or conquering, new territory and exploiting its resources and labor force for gain. Political and ideological influences are also transferred in order to strengthen the hold. Less than one-hundred years ago, the practice of conquering neighboring nations was infamously used by the European nations; the Russian Empire, the British Empire, the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were some of the world powers whose ambitions disrupted peaceful diplomacy and led to the first world war. Another global war was instigated two decades after the first one ended by Germany and Italy. Imperialistic Japan to the east was also embroiled in the conflict. Each country navigated through the political landscape jockeying for world domination. It was not a time of peaceful trade relations, there was no pretense of modernization, establishing a free market, converting the population to Christianity, improving education or developing healthcare. Imperialist expansion arrived in an overwhelming wave of dominance and violence inflicting destructive changes to the political, economic, and social institutions of de