Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Negative Effects of the New Imperialism




Imperialism had many Negative effects, because many European countries wanted to conquer the world they fought between them, and because they had better weapons and technology as well as medicine, they could survive to mortal diseases, and also because of this, Africans and Asians accepted Western control over them.
Europe had a special weapon called "Maxim gun" this was probably one of the best war machines, with this machines they killed people very fast, I think that without the Maxim gun Europe would not conquer parts of Africa. Even an English person said that whatever happens they have the Maxim gun and Africans don't.

Because Europe wanted to control African's life, many people were against this. Africans and Asians resisted their Expansion, and they fought against them even if their weapons were inferior to the European weapons. After a while, western educated Africans and Asians organized movements to take imperialist out of their lands.

Also because the Europeans controlled African's lives, they made them work almost for nothing, and they sometimes killed them, and in some regions the population declined.

Wars for the territory were everywhere, when the French empire wanted to control part of Africa, the Algerians rise in weapons and fought against the French, but this coasted many of lives for both empires. When the British wanted to conquer south Africa, the Boers fought against them, but unfortunately the British won because they had better armies and technology than the Boers.


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