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Ch 15 Sec 3 "Consequences of Imperialism"
- 3. Political • Temporary peace and stability if they submitted to European control • 50 new African states were formed • Produced well trained and effective civil servants • Trained professional armies to control the population and put down armed resistance
- 4. • Ended the natural development of modern states in Africa
- 5. Economic • POSITIVE • Europeans built a modern infrastructure (railroad, roads, telegraph wires)
- 6. • Europeans introduced improved farming methods • Replaced the barter-based economy with a money-based economy • Introduced modern concepts of banking
- 7. • NEGATIVE • The new infrastructure neglected certain areas • When Europeans divided Africa some regions were left with little opportunity to prosper • Africans were forced to concentrate on cash crops rather than food • Resulted in great wealth for the Europeans, who failed to re-invest it back into Africa
- 8. Social • POSITIVE • Growth in population • Experienced urbanization (villages grew into towns; towns expanded into cities) • Spread of religion and education was encouraged • You could advance based on merit and achievement rather than social order or birth
- 9. • NEGATIVE • There was a huge gap between the rural and urban areas in Africa • The status of African women was downgraded • Everything African was condemned
Editor's Notes
- Europeans can take no credit for any positive results of imperialism…most of the positive results of European imperialism were accidental rather than intentional
- Cecil Rhodes: Cape-Cairo railway project. Founded the De Beers Mining Company and owned the British South Africa Company, which established Rhodesia for itself. He liked to "paint the map British red," and declared: "all of these stars ... these vast worlds that remain out of reach. If I could, I would annex other planets.
- Cost was their freedom…had no choice if they wanted to benefit their people Europeans drew the boundaries with little regard for the actual location of tribes…they divided tribes or combined various tribes without African input…they had little in common and spoke different languages…led to unrest A bureaucratic structure proved beneficial to African states as they later gained their independence…Britain was the best, then the French and finally Portugal has the worst-trained civil servants These armies were chronic source of instability, confusion, and anarchy that continues in some African states today
- Africans grew up under the control of Europeans and had no experience in self government…much of the progress made by their parents and grandparents had been lost and forgotten…also were isolated from the rest of the world
- Greatly increased production of many natural resources and the railroads enabled much larger harvests to be delivered to markets
- The Europeans only built to benefit themselves…it was distributed unevenly and some areas received no improvements Some areas had access to the coast, rich mineral deposits and other natural resources, other had access to few natural resources Still like this today and Africans rely on other nations to provide food for their people…they have found it difficult to change their agricultural habits This left Africa with an underdeveloped and underfunded economic system
- Initially it went down due to contact with European diseases and conflict British encouraged the spread of Islam as well as Christianity…felt it would be less resistance by the African Muslims
- All the medical facilities and schools were in the urban areas Opposed African names, music, art and anything else that originated in Africa…also forced them to wear European-style clothing