Just like the negative, there were also positive effects of the New Imperialism. For the most part, most of the countries in Europe were just gaining power while others were declining. This made it very easy for Europe to step in with authority and dominate the declining countries. The Westerners had strong economies, organized governments, powerful armies/navies, superior technology, and improved medical knowledge. They also had that machine guns and rifles and steam-driven warships. As an English writer said, "Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not."
However on the other side of the table, conquered people had their own culture which brought the people together and brought very few fighting in the interior of the country. The conquered people did not have to worry about the diseases because they were used to them. Even though they were in decline they still were in decline together with all the other countries, therefore no one could really conquer each other's country.
But the overall benefit from both sides of the countries did not show as much positive as it really should of.
I'm not sure this second paragraph accomplishes what we want it to, in terms of examining and explaining specific effects of New Imperialism. Sometimes, when you're responding to a question like this, lines can get blurry and you end up mentioning what might be some characterisics, but they not exactly Effects of the particular Cause we want to think about.
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