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IMPERIALISM
The legacy of colonialism
Modification of the territory
Europeans created new countries and drew their borders,
built the
infrastructure required to exploit and link the conquered territories
the creation of countries with serious problems of internal cohesion.
creation of artificial countries with borders drawn along meridians and parallels
The demographic impact
Fewer
epidemics.
Death rate dropped
Population increased
in Africa the population growth altered
the balance between population and resources
Cultural colonisation
indigenous peoples customs and oral
tradition did not survive
education spread
spread
Christianity.
pronounced
in Africa than in Asia.
Economic consequences
economic interests of the colonisers were imposed on the colonies
most indigenous people became subjects
The colonizers
took over land, abandoned
traditional crops
grow products that benefited the
metropole:
Indigenous
forced to work in plantations to survive
buy food
settlers imposed cash market economy
The production of traditional crafts ended as it could
not compete
The dismantling of traditional societies
showed no respect for the ways of life of the
indigenous people,
social structures changed
recruited groups of army
New wotking patterns
Disrupted tribal life and the old system of social hierarchies
Division of the world in colonial empires
The British Empire
the largest colonial empire
Controlled
maritime trade routes
Bases in the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific and Mediterranean
In Africa created an empire from Cairo in the North to Cape Town in the South
Main colony
India
Supply raw materials
Britain competed with
France for the control of Burma (1886)
and Russia for Afghanistan and Tibet
The French Empire
the second-largest colonial empire.
settled in various areas,
especially North Africa and Southeast Asia.
occupy a vast Africa territory
the Red Sea to the Atlantic
Ocean
spanned Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia
presence in Southeast Asia (Conchinchina) from the mid-19th century grew stronger
United States and Japan
the last industrial powers to start a colonial
enterprise.
After the American Civil War (1861-1865),
became a great power in a matter of decades,
Emperor Meiji
began Japan’s modernisation in 1868.
US colonial expansion
extended towardst he
Pacific and the Caribbean.
drove out Spain from the Philippines,
Japan stopped the
Russian invasion