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They didn't. They just drew their maps differently. They never owned more land.
When a nation expands its rule, authority by the empire over the other nation is called imperialism. Imperialism includes obtaining and controlling territories and reliance.
Imperial powers expanded as:
- Many countries like France, Germany, Russia and Japan fought during the 18- 19th century to invade and establish their rule over territories.
- The imperial power grew during 1822-1900 as it was the era of Industrialization.
- Industries and manufacturing units made empires spread globally to acquire more power.
- The established and more powerful empires invaded the weak and developing countries so that they can acquire raw materials and labour for the industries.
- The countries like France, Europe and British fought over countries that were far away and even marked some regions as the undiscovered cause they did not know about them.
In this way, unexplored places were marked as undiscovered on the maps.
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