Imperialism 1880
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Kyle Helmstetter
During the late 1800s Imperialism had its positive and negative effects on the political, economic, and social lives of the people in the countries such as Northern Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Europe especially gained an immense amount of power and wealth from Imperialism. Europes Dominance, and Eagerness for exploration as well as colonization lead to the start of a new era during the late 1800s and a theme that would continue throughout the world and continues to be a concern in todays society: Racism and Slavery. Although Europes success lead to economic, political, and even population downfalls of Africa and most of the Americas it caused other countries like France and Most of Europe to Flourish with economical and political success.
The explanation behind the conclusion of Europes success leads us far back in time before any technology or useful tools like the printing press or farming and agriculture were invented. It takes us back to the start of the 1800s when Europe was just learning how to use their natural resources like metals, grains, as well many other resources to invent and innovate new military weapons and agricultural. This new technology leads to new and better ships to be built, as well as a new eagerness for exploration. When Europe first discovered Africa and the new peoples that were inhabited there, they sought to use the natives for trade in exchange for goods such as salts and gold to mostly France but also other countries like Some parts of South America. These natives were also used as slaves for labor for very cheap or little cost. This made Europes economy flourish even more, and cause Countries like Africa and mexico to dramatically downfall.
Imperialism wasnt necessarily a good thing however. The Europeans eagerness for wealth caused them to move to new locations all over the world, especially Africa. The Europeans werent used to the new climates that Africa provided. Malaria was an intense factor in Africa during the time of Europeans domination and exploration. The Africans had adapted to this and as a result tended to move far away from the large water supplies to avoid the deadly mosquitos that carried the malaria disease. The Europeans had no idea of this disease and therefor moved most of the Africans to enslavement camps near rivers or lakes causing an outburst of malaria that would eventually kill most of the Europeans and Africans. Diseases, War, And rebielions were a huge cause of the ending of Europes success and would eventually take over 1/3 of the worlds population.
All of these factors such as disease, new inventions, innovation, economy success as well as decline, and slavery are things to consider when thinking about weather Imperialism during the late 1800s had a negative or positive effect on the world. While There were many downfalls of