A thinker named Niccolò Machiavelli said that countries practice imperialism just to survive and stay safe.

In a protectorate, the weaker country loses its local government completely.

A sphere of influence means a powerful country controls another area without officially taking over its land.

The Marxist view says that powerful countries use imperialism because they want to spread peace.

If a rich nation forces a poor country to change its laws by threatening to stop giving it money, this is neocolonialism.

A powerful country building military bases in a new land to stop local rebellions is an example of cultural imperialism.

When European nations took over Africa to steal gold and use local workers, they used both direct acquisition and economic imperialism.

To understand the full effect of imperialism on the Philippines, historians only need to look at money and ignore changes in language or religion.