Expanding the range of the species is due to the innate instinct of all representatives of living life on the planet.
Animals tend to increase the area of habitats for all to have enough food, which requires more and more to the growth of livestock.Birds also multiply, face the problem of food and seeds of plants originally have natural fit for them as far as possible carried the wind or dragging away on itself other living beings.
the example of conventional ant can understand that such expansion.Expansio word in Latin means expanding and it reflects the desire of all living things to capture as much territory.While the construction created insect laborers, small, square, where they get something to eat and building materials, are also relatively small.But from the beginning of strangers here do not favor, and if the representative of a tribe of wandering around the conditional, but it is clearly defined and marked the line, he is not big trouble.
Mankind, divided into races, nations and tribes since ancient times behaves in a similar way.Constantly fighting with their neighbors, many ethnic groups did not forget about the distant, unknown countries.What is the expansion in a human, and how it differs from the animal-plant?
natural limitations to the natural expansion
Any extension of the natural habitat of the species involves rational assumptions and limitations of natural barriers.For example, tropical plants, despite the inherent nature of the desire to sow their own kind instances of huge space, can not survive in a moderate climate, not to mention the polar latitudes.Polar bears or penguins will be hot in the equatorial climate.Features of soil and fauna and therefore restricts the movement of herbivores, and their population is regulated by predators.In the desert, the Arctic and the Antarctic, in turn, can not all live organisms.
What is the expansion of the human understanding?
Every schoolboy knows that America was discovered by Sailor Vespucci.But it is believed that long before the Scandinavian Vikings visited the mainland, although the barrier was very dangerous and harsh.What was unknown adventurers risk their lives, that they were looking over the ocean?Clearly, they wanted more wealth.In their minds the symbol of a better life were the riches that may possess other people's families.There remained a mere trifle, to reach the edge of the unknown, and assign values.And if no one lives there, the problem is generally easier to limit.
What is the expansion of a military
centuries passed, and white spots on maps disappeared.Even a small piece of land, not to mention the vast territories, found their owners.But historical realities, and to this day do not give rest to those who doubt the validity and finality of established boundaries.Countries with large population often occupy a relatively small area, which is also not always rich in resources.Territorial expansion seems logical way out of this impasse, and the people who are deprived of living space, sooner or later, some leaders begin to instill the idea of expanding the boundaries of the possible, accompanied along the way enslaved population of the occupied lands.Voluntarily no one does not want to share, and that the war begins.There are many examples do not need.The last two millennia, with greater or lesser intensity of humanity fight culmination of this process was the XX century, and the hope is that in this century it will refuse this habit, very modest.
was, however, a precedent.The leader Mao Zedong once tried to persuade the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to let in the underdeveloped eastern regions of the Soviet Union a small part of the population of China, twenty million.He refused, he reasonably thought that two hundred million Soviet citizens Siberia is also useful.Military expansion, which he tried to attempt in the late sixties to take Chairman Mao also was not successful.
Non-military expansion
Another thing - expansion of economic interests.Methods for trade expansion are old and are diverse, but this does not become less effective.The main weapon - dumping, ie the sale of exported goods by deliberately low prices.The goal - the destruction of industry of the country in which the trade war.After that you can dictate the conditions in general, such as military and after capture.
Summarizing the comparative observation of the biosphere, which is a part of human civilization, we can only conclude that the sentient beings of our planet behave in much the same way as their "smaller brothers", with only one difference: the limitations people have much less.
