Second Wave of European colonialist. The "Scramble for Africa"

The european motives and activities were shaped by the military capacity and economic power that the Industrial Revolution conveyed. The construction of the second wave European empires in the Afro- Asian wold, empires everywhere. The europeans had a lot of advancement in their military and firepower and machine guns. But why then the europeans would say that they proffered informal control, for it was cheaper and less likely to provoke wars. They still went on and had to fight long and hard to be able to create their new empires