I believe it was because they wanted to control the new world :)
Almost all areas of medicine have benefited from scientific and technological developments, but perhaps the greatest fields in the sense of improvement has been surgery.
Answer:
How did the industrial revolution encourage imperialism? Caused by internal strife, European rivals whittling away its territories and lack of adopting Western ways to late. Resources, people, low cost labor, and expansion of territory.
Explanation:
the Mississippi river system (if this is wrong I'm so sorry)