6.2.4

=Imperialism = 


 * B**

It may surprise many people to hear the imperialism and racism go hand-in-hand. When Africa was being taken over by the European Government thats actually when racism started. Africa had a large selection of natural resources. The European government went to Africa to take those resources. Unfortunately for the Africans thats not all they found. In Africa there was a rather diverse population of Africans, who spoke many different languages, and who were all developed and contrasty from the next. Europeans then enslaved the Africans to their own land. Giving them the bad lands to farm on, instead of the good. The few Africans who did get good land however were not aloud to grow the good cash crops. The natural resources soon gave out and the Africans were shipped and sold all across the world. The slave trade then began. Back in America there was a large demand for tobacco and cotton. For most American farmers couldn’t tend to the plantations themselves; but hiring work was hard to do if you couldn’t afford it after selling the crop. Instead they shipped Africans in to America. This made the plantation owners happy because now they could become wealthy, and all they had to do was feed and house the slaves. Because of the slave trade the Africans were then degrade; not being looked at as people but as property. Within the degrading process racism was developed, and now some places that you go there will still be the everlasting racism around.


 * C**

trading rights on the fringe of the Mughal power was at its hight.
 * Britain then turned its commercial interests in the region into political ones. In the early 1600’s the British East India Company won

By mid-1800’s, it controlled three fifths of India. The British were able to conquer India by exploiting Indian Diversity. British took advantage of Indian divisions by encouraging competition disunity among rival princess. The British used their superior weapons to overpower local rulers. The East India Company’s main goal in India was to make money, the leading officials often grew rich. At the same time, the company did work to improve roads, preserve peace, and reduce banditry. By the 1800’s, British officials introduced Western education and legal procedures. Missionaries tried to convert Indians to Christianity, which they felt was superior to Indian religions. One law banned was sati a Hindu custom practiced mainly by the upper classes. British issued new rifles to the sepoys. Angry sepoys rose up against their British officers. British soon rallied and crushed the revolt. British made roads and rail roads so that they could transfer there goods such as the Indian cotton, jute, and coal to coastal ports for transport to factories in England. British introduced medical improvements and new farming methods. Better healthcare and increased food production led to rapid population growth. United States wanted to trade with Japan so they sent military to see if they would open up there ports to trade. The Japanese leaders debated how to respond, to open up there 215 year old policy of seclusion. They ended opening up to trade. In the early 1600s, Japan was still ruled by shoguns, or supreme military dictators. In 1603, a new family, the Tokugawas, seized power in Edo. For more than 200 years, japan developed in isolation. By the 1800s, shoguns were no longer strong leaders.  ****D**

Asia--BENJY THERE ISN’T ANYTHING ON ASIA IN HERE.. **
 * In the early 1800s an Islamic revival spread across West African, starting from Nigeria. Usman announced the corruption of local Hausa rulers. He then called for social and religious reforms. The Hausa townspeople arose against Europe rulers. Now under Islamic rule literacy increases, local wars quieted, and trade improved. This inspired Muslim reforms in West Africa. 1780-1880, within that 100 year span over a dozen Muslim leaders had taken over and replaced African rulers. In East Africa Islam rule had been along the coast for a long period time. The coast carried much profitable trade, and the slaves started to become the main cargo, along with ivory. The struggles of slavery would continue until the end of the century. During the early 1800s many countries had decided to abolish slavery. Places like Britain and Europe. However it took many years to proceed. Even then it wasn’t until THIS YEAR until slavery was abolished from America.