Term-paper: Avoiding Imperialism

<Tab/>In the Age of Discovery, many of the dominant European countries set out to explore and take as much land as possible. These Empires competed for land with gold, spices, cloth, anything that is not readily available in normal European countries, and so they conquered many lands, oppressing the natives of that land and claiming ownership. The lands conquered included land in Africa, the middle east, the America's, Philippines, India, and most of Southeast Asia, and some of these countries would remain colonized for a long time, in fact, some even last into the 20th cen…