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IMPERIALISM PART 3 - Coggle Diagram
IMPERIALISM PART 3
Colonial empires in the world
British empire
Largest collonial empire
Controlled maritime trade routes
The main colony was India
Important supply of raw materials
Fight in Bruma for a major control
The French empire
2nd largest colonial empire
Settled in
North Africa
South east Asia
Non-european empires
Japan
The last industrial powers to start a colonial enterprise
American Civil War (1861-1865)
USA
Great power thanks to
Raw materials
Energy sources
Technology
Cultural colonisation
Traditions didn't survive
Education spread
Africa
European languages,
Beliefs and lifestyles, while missionaries spread
Christianity.
Economic consequences
The economic interests of the colonisers were imposed on the colonies
The colonisers took over land
Abandoned traditional crops
Survival indigenous families and replace them with large
Plantations to grow products
Indigenous forced to work
To survive
To buy food
Dismantiling of traditional societies
The colonisers showed no respect for the ways of life of the
indigenous people
The new working patterns disrupted life and the old system os social hierarchies
Ethnic groups unite or separate artificially
Legacy of colonialism
Modification of the territory
Europeans
Created new countries
Drew their borders
Cut down forests
Exploit the colonies
Africa
Changed the landscape
The economic and political structure
Problems of internal cohesion
Radically clashes between the tribal countries in Africa
Demographic impact
Creation of hospitals and the introduction
of vaccines and better hygiene
Fewer epidemics
Death rate dropped
Population growth increased