• The rush to expand territorial empires in the Age of Imperialism was essentially a continuation of European expansion and domination overseas since 1492.

• The “Age of Imperialism,” in which European states adopted a conscious policy of territorial expansion, can be said to have begun as early as early as the 1750s.

• Since the 17^th century the superiority of European technology, especially in weaponry, both facilitated and prompted Europeans to conquer and dominate other peoples of the Americas, Africa, and South Asia.

• The greatest period of missionary activity by Christian churches occurred during Age of Imperialism, c. 1870-1914.
   

  Christian missions

• Well represented among missionaries in Africa and India were graduates of Mount Holyoke College.

Map of Asia 1914

• The role British women missionaries in India was essentially conservative, western, and patriarchal, for their work aimed at bringing native women into conformity with the Victorian ideal for women: monogamous marriage, dutiful subordination to one’s husband, and the moral guardian of children and the home.

Photos of British women in India, ca. 1850

• The European conquest of sub-Saharan Africa in the 1880s and 1890s was propelled largely by economic motives, the desire to secure markets and higher profits from investments in African resources.

Map of Africa in 1914

• The rise of a mass electorate in Western European countries after 1860 created new pressures to spread democracy in the colonies.

Social imperialism

• Cross-cultural borrowing occurs when members of one society takes a desirable feature from a foreign society and brings their society into conformity with the borrowed feature.

  Pertinent evidence for an answer in Krupabai Satthianadhan's Segua