Firstly, he was successful in managing the royal finances by innovatively using the Royal Chamber to efficiently manage the royal income. Unlike any of the previous monarchs, Ed began using the Royal Chamber increasing whereas before him all reliance had been upon the Exchequer. Now though, with this new scheme the revenue and expenditure was much more systematic and consequently the income rose significantly. Furthermore as he got older his experience increased, however even when he started he did a better job than his predecessor, Henry VII. Previous kings had only used the Chamber erratically in times of war however Edward decided to make it more systematic, which in turn siphoned in much more money.
Literacy allowed them to conquer foreign lands easily because through writing, they could now have maps, sailing directions, and descriptive reports of previous sailors which would improve their experience. Diamond connects this growth in literacy to the reason behind Europe’s successful colonial power. This is the main reason why they were able to travel, find new places and therefore conquer because Europeans felt they were more superior and advanced because they had literacy. Diamond also talks about the three types of writing which were logogram, syllabary and alphabet. Logogram stood for a word, syllabary was for a syllable and alphabet was for a basic writing.
(Source B) The colonists (or the main fault) did not realize the many mistakes they made when they colonized Congo. After and during the war, the population had had a dramatic increase, which meant more fighting power to fight against the colonialists. Over 200 000 people were willing to fight back, and reclaim their country as their own. The colonialists did not expect so many people, and for the black nationalists to have so much fighting power and dedication. (Source E and
Another Great invention was the rifling of musket barrels which increased both range, and accuracy in muskets to about 750-900 feet. The new technology ranged from weapons, cameras, telegraphs, to tin cans. New weapons allowed soldiers to be more effective, but this new technology also meant that more soldiers were killed. Although the biggest invention was the Gatling Gun, which was the modern day machine gun during the Civil War. The Gatling gun saw only limited use in the Civil War, but was a huge step to modern day technology.
WR 122 11 August 2010 King Leopold’s Ghost: Illuminating Congo’s Heart of Darkness King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild is a sweeping and often revolting account of the atrocities of the Belgian colonization of the Congo and its aftermath. Using a variety of writing techniques, Hochschild creates an engrossing narrative which not only unveils a dark chapter in our global history, but also fosters an empathy in the reader to the victims of the barbarity of the time. The story unfolds around the turn of the twentieth century when European powers began to explore and colonize Sub-Saharan Africa. Belgian king Leopold II laid individual claim to the enormous chunk of land surrounding the Congo River and proceeded to strip the land of its resources, including, but not limited to, rubber, ivory, and people using a deadly system of forced labor. Under the ironic and spurious guise of humanitarianism, Leopold built himself an empire in central Africa, lining his pockets and satisfying his egotism, becoming the largest individual landowner in the world, while the brutality of his reign slashed the Congolese population by 10 million people, or approximately in half (Hochschild, 233).
There was this sort of contest Erurope was going through; countries would rush to get as much African land as they could, usually going after the rich land. Leopold quickly joined in on that, sending the explorer, Stanley. After Leopold hired Henry Morton Stanley to travel across the Congo to conquer most of the land there, he used his clever ways to make major European counties and the United States recognize that this territory was personally owned by him. 2. Hochschild writes of Joseph Conrad that he “was so horrified by the greed and brutality among white men he saw in the Congo that his view of human nature was permanently change.” Judging from Hochschild’s account and from Heart of Darkness, in what way was Conrad’s view changed?
Menelik II had successfully managed to manipulate European powers against each other as well as gaining numerous arms and modern weapons against one another. This can be seen through Boahen's view that "the decisive victory at Adwa, achieve primarily because, for the first time in all the Afro-European encounters, the African side enjoyed the technological and military superiority"[3] this helps to show the large amount of support gained from other European powers against the weakest other European powers. Important factors that need to be focused on throughout are about the modernisation that occurred within the state, along with the diplomacy that was struck up with European
For the later half of the 20th century European militia (mainly Belgium) was in control of Rwanda but as things became more and more hectic and the Hutu’s began to become fed up with the Tutsi’s most all of the European militia pulled out of Rwanda. The Belgium initially took interest in Rwanda because of the mass amounts of tea and coffee that could be produced. Throughout their stay in Rwanda the Belgian’s really pushed equality between the Hutu’s and the Tutsi’s and because before they moved in the Hutu’s were more powerful than the Tutsi’s they were outraged that they were being treated equally. Instead of really pushing this issue of equality and rights Belgium ignored it. So the Hutu’s felt that they had to take things into their own hands and so they were able to ship in machetes from China for about a dime each.
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration effectively made the :Great Society” and then tackled the growing issue of poverty through this program but unfortunately could not help the gender discrimination of this time period. Lyndon Johnson took over the presidency and took into account the political problems in the United States surrounding both at home and oversees. Naming his new domestic program as the "Great Society", Johnson at
In doing so, Wallace highlights the complexity of the interactions between Native Americans and the new “Americans”; he exposes corruption in the early United States; and he unearths the role the industrial revolution played in the loss of much of Native American culture. II. Summary Andrew Jackson is often revered as a great hero of the United States of America. He is such a cherished part of the history, that he is honored on the twenty-dollar bill. According to Wallace, this view stems from the disregard of many inconvenient truths during his administration.