How was the expansion of European influence in the nineteenth century similar to its expansion in the early modern period? What set it apart?

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The Answer is Comparisons:
•The expansion was similar in that European influence continued to have its greatest impact through the oceanic trading routes that European countries had established to conduct trade.
•The establishment of political and military control over other regions continued to be a source of increased European influence.
Contrasts:
•Europe in the nineteenth century drew on immense new resources created by the Industrial Revolution to underpin its expansion.
•European states were more powerful in the nineteenth century and were able to field more military resources in their competition with each other for imperial expansion.
•Europe's influence in India,China,and Japan increased in the nineteenth century.
•To a greater extent than before,in the nineteenth century Europe enmeshed other parts of the world in networks of trade,investment,and sometimes migration,ultimately generating a new world economy.
•Unlike the early modern period,in the nineteenth century,European expansion brought with it a new culture of modernity that was characterized by scientific rationalism and technological achievements,a belief in a better future,and ideas of nationalism,socialism,feminism,and individualism.

How Was the Expansion of European Influence in the Nineteenth