9. III. Clashes for Imperial Control
A. Imperialism brought European nation-states in conflict with each
other across the globe.
B. Examples
1. The South African War or Boer War of 1902
2. The Spanish-American War of 1898
3. The Russo-Japanese War, 1904
C. Thus, Imperialism becomes the first long-term cause of WWI
Editor's Notes
Global Migration, c. 1800–1910 People were on the move during these decades, concerned with finding livelihoods. Underemployed people from Asia and Africa migrated as indentured servants, which many saw as a new type of slavery. Europeans left rural areas as the global trade in grain drove down prices for produce; others hoped to escape religious and personal persecution.