India didn’t have the strength to build up their own civilization, so when the British came, they gave them aid in creating one. According to document 2, some positive affects for India during the imperialism were a British system of government. This was known as a “knife of sugar”. This means that the system was very smooth and had no oppression. The British introduced a parliamentary system of government to the Indians.
In addition to helping India, the British Empire negatively affected India. According to Monhandas Ghandi’s speech in Document 7, the British impoverished India by controlling the Indian government. Year by year Britain stole India’s money. The British destroyed India’s spirit, and disregarded their feelings. India wasn’t the only country that Britain negatively affected.
The Chinese government got really upset so they confronted the British government and this started the Opium war starting in 1899 till 1902. The British didn’t see this as a problem; they crushed the naval forces and in all won the battle. The British had complete control besides the fact that they were corrupting china with opium they also built a colony named Hong Kong. This is a prime example of what I was saying on how the British abused their power. Another major part of European imperialism was the colonization or as I call it the torture of Sudan, in Africa.
Imperialism is the act of an empire taking rule over foreign countries. Imperialism had both positive and negative effects on India. During the 1700’s the British East India Company took advantage of other countries’ natural resources such as India’s (India: British East India Company). The company also wanted to control countries’ markets which they could do through imperialism. The British East India Company had successfully imperialized India by taking advantage of India’s political rivalries at the time, pushing the religious differences in India to create further religious tensions, and taking over little parts of India at a time.
Also they gained economic power because the colonies which were part of the British Empire had sources of cheap raw materials, which were manufactured in Britain and sold on again, thus increasing trade, leading to increased GDP. WW1, The Great Depression of the 1930's and then WW2, all happened one after the other, and exhausted Britain financially. In 1945 Britain was still a military superpower, with a huge Army, Navy and Air Force, but Britain was financially in a disastrous state, and Britain itself badly needed rebuilding, and this was the priority. Britain decolonised over a period of around 30 years, almost always peacefully, and without any major challenges from the colonials. In the 1950's many of the former colonies became independent, which meant the British Empire was no longer a superpower.
Not only did they westernized their education with modern sciences and modern life, but they also made a frame for the to establish laws and courts of justice (Document3). The British built a strong and efficient administration ran the government for the Indians, deciding that they would not be able to run their government properly, became a problem later for India. Imperialism may have been a positive force for India in many ways, but the economic gain benefitted
The war also doubled Britain’s debt which led to the passing of the Sugar Act, which taxed sugar going into the colonies. The colonists believed they needed representation in order to be taxed and therefore didn’t want to pay any new taxes which led to reduced trade and protests as the colonial economy suffered. As a result the British passed the Quartering Act, sending more troops in, as well as the Currency Act and the Stamp Act, which gave Britain control over the colonial economy and established more taxes. The Committee of Correspondence was established as a result of the Currency Act to coordinate action against Britain. As a result of the Stamp Act the sons and daughters of liberty were formed; they led resistance efforts to end the Stamp Act.
As England tried to hold its grip on the becoming independent colonies, Britain was in need of a centralized colonial government that should have been established from the beginning. Due to the great distance between America and England and its inefficient policies, the colonies had a great deal of freedom. When Britain decided to enforce their influence and rule on America following the Seven Years War, there was many areas of disagreement that eventually lead to the American Revolution. Following the victory of the French and Indian War, Britain gained control of half of the continent by the scratch of a pen (94). Britain's national debt doubled during the course of the war and the cost of extended empire cause a dramatic increase in the cost of living.
Simply put the policy worked on the theme with more money, a country has more power. The English colonists lost a lot of their money to the England and the monarchy because of the mercantilism policy. It was bad deal all the way around since the colonists sold their raw materials to the mother country at ridiculously low prices and bought back the finished products at exceedingly high prices because they could not complete the finished product. The second part of the policy was that a nation must regulate its trade to sell more than it buys. This ultimately brought the Navigation
This instituted trade connections, which greatly increased the wealth of the empire as a whole, It also brought many foreign lands into grasp for Islamic conversion. As all empires before it had done, the Abbasid empire declined. Yet again the failure of the empire is pointed towards the caliphs. Their failed attempts to reconcile with the opposing Shi'a led to revolts and splintering of the empire. Through both of the Umayyad and Abbasid empires the caliphs would greatly increase the strength and support of the empire but in the end they would