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Besides economics, what reasons did European countries have for building empires?

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The Europeans wanted to build empires for a couple of other reasons than economic ones. They were running out of open spaces was one of the reasons. The other major reason is that the more land you held, the more powerful it made you seem. They also wanted to Christianize the native peoples.