Corrina Pereira HN World Cultures Cino 22 January 2011 Western Imperialism in Africa By the end of the 19th century, many strong world powers were racing to dominate and colonize in weaker areas. This now common action was known as imperialism. Imperialism is a process that can affect one small country or even the whole world and in many cases has done as much destruction as development. Africa in particular was one of the most imperialized of all places. Following the Islamic crusades that spread through the continent, Western nations began scrambling to take over and colonize it for economic, nationalistic, military, or humanitarian reasons.
The Klu Klux Klan was active and the Nativist Movement against blacks, Jews and foreigners was growing (Williams, 1954). The so called ‘new immigration’ of over 800 000 foreigners in 1920 furthered the dislike of foreigners. The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 was passed, establishing a yearly quota limiting immigration (Williams, 1954). This was later replaced by the Immigration Act of 1924, further restricting immigration. The US government also raised tariffs on US exports and imports, to and from Europe in an attempt to strengthen the economy and establish the US as economically independent (Williams, 1954).
Europe gained many territories due to the advancements in technology. The four main causes of New Age Imperialism were political, economic, religious/humanitarian interests and also social Darwinism. Although they were both forced to modernize in similar ways, they were still very different. During new age imperialism china and japan were controlled by Britain to change in order to improve the advance their ways of life. Although they were both forced to change.
Elite and popular art became aligned as never before or since” (p.235) So we can say that by looking to History we can see that Japan influenced the art and design of America. Morse’s phrase explains how much japan influenced America “at first so little understood modified our own methods of ornamentation until frescoes and wallpapers, woodwork and carpets, dishes and table clothes, metal work and book-covers, Christmas cards and even
Between 1500-1800 C.E. Sub-Saharan Africa experienced changes and continuity as they began to go further with their foreign relations. Culturally, Africa began to form syncretic cults that had Christian teachings and African traditions. Slavery continued to be one of Africa's main way of showing economic wealth. Africa experienced growth and change in their political organization and the rise and fall of kingdoms and states Before the syncretic cults, Africa's old traditions and beliefs surrounded deities, idols, and multiple gods.
As layers of bureaucracy developed over the centuries, so did the inefficiency and corruption within government operations. Colonial officials ignored their own rules and failed to enforce laws mostly because of the shortage of labor. The acquisition of land was also important because of the growing agriculture to provide labor and wealth. This would also lead
This industrialisation was paid for through heavy taxation on the peasants and the workers. Wages were suppressed to allow money to be ploughed back into developing industry and , in particular, railways. Conditions were very poor for urban workers and soon revolutionary parties like the Bolsheviks began to appear. Furthermore, industrialisation required an educated workforce. This was dangerous for the Tsarist system as an educate workforce was more likely to call for reforms.
This decreased the income of money going into the government which was used for military and other government worthy things. The result of that led to higher taxation on citizens which made the people of Rome upset and ended up having less money to buy necessities and other things to keep the economy rolling. Another important reason was the abundance of slaves in Rome. The large quantity of slaves help lead to the growth of latifundia which is large land estates, consisting mostly of slaves for farming. This ruined the farmers of Rome which in result, they drifted to cities that helped add more unemployment to the cities.
This caused the people to flock to America and seek new job opportunities. Another reason was over-population in the cities. The overcrowding of tens and thousands of people in one town in filthy conditions caused a book of problems. The bubonic plague was one, which brought one example of many economic declines, in the production of food and imports and widespread of malnutrition. Other problems included higher prices, lower purchasing power, and years of poor harvest.
Ghana fell due to other countries’ jealousy of their wealth. When Ghana was completely fallen, the Mali Empire eventually took over in 1235. Towards the end of the time period, Timbuktu became a major trade point. Trading was very common between many countries and states. Islam continued to grow.