Imperialism was based mostly on economic concerns’. How far do these sources support this view?

Source D

Take up the White Man’s burden–Send forth the best ye breed–

Go bind your sons to exile

To serve your captives’ need; To wait in heavy harness,

On fluttered folk and wild–

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.

This is a verse from a famous poem, _writt_en b_y B_rit_ai_n s imperial poet, Rue/yore/ Kipling, which was a response to the American                                                                                                                                                             LS.1¹

takeover of the Philippines after the 1898 Spani:sh-Amefican War. It was written in 1899.

Answer both parts with reference to the sources

Read Sources A and B.

1. Compare and contrast the reasons for imperialism given in Sources A and B [15]

Read all the sources.

2. ‘Imperialism was based mostly on economic concerns’. How far do these sources support this view? [25]