The benefits included modern militaries, new factories, railroads, steamships, steel bridges, and reformed education. These additions have helped these countries, but they have erased part of their identities as well. The schools built only teach what is convenient, and the factories capture the citizens and bury them in cheap labor that the dominant countries profit from. The only reason why these inventions and modern ideas were brought to these countries was for the benefit of their imperialists. The railroads, bridges, and steamships were meant to help the theft of raw materials and transport them back to a mother country. These materials were made into finished products and then sold back to the countries over priced. These countries were never helped with no hidden