... such a development. The Industrial Revolution inevitably led to several results-an increase in population, increased demands for food supplies and raw materials, and an excess of home-produced goods arising from the mass production through the use of technology. All these factors meant that the European nations had to look for territories outside the European continent to solve their problems such as shortages of living space, land and supplies.This inevitably intensified the search for colonies, culminating into what was known as the "Age of High Imperialism", as the Europeans thought that the acquisition of colonies would solve these problems. As Murphey had written, the "new imperialism" was the work of advanced industrial capitalist nations rather than of mercantilist economies that were prominent in the centuries before 1800.2 This indeed is true. The European powers, which included Spain, Portugal, Britain and France, had always been involved in the contest for new colonies. ...

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