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IMPERIALISM imperialism—the domination by one country or people over another group of people From the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, an era dominated by what is now termed Old Imperialism. In the Age of New Imperialism that began in the 1870s, European states established vast empires mainly in Africa, but also in Asia and the Middle East. Old Imperialism European nations established colonies in the Americas, India, South Africa, and the East Indies, and gained territory along the coasts of Africa and China In the first half of the nineteenth century, colonialism became less popular The Napoleonic Wars, the struggle for nationalism and democracy, and the cost of industrialization exhausted the energies of European nations However, in the mid-nineteenth century, Europe—especially Great Britain and France— began an economic revival During the Victorian Era, which lasted from 1837 to 1901, Great Britain became an industrial giant, providing more than 25 p