1. CONSEQUENCES
DEMOGRAPHIES
• The population increased due to a decrease in the mortality rate.
• This fact led to an imbalance between population and resources . Thousand
of European people emigrated
• Population was drastically reduced in some the indigenous population
• Unknown diseases (flu, smallpox...) were introduced by the emigrants
ECONOMICS
• Ports , railroads , roads ,were created in order to star the economic
exploitation.
• These colonies became the goods suppliers for the metropolitan industries,
while manufacturing disappeared in them.
• The traditional agriculture was replaced by a new one with monoculture
exports(There are too much changes in the lifestyle and landscapes)

2. Social and political consequences
Social
• The middle class in the metropolis occupied the high levels of the colonial
society
• Some indigenous groups were assimilated by the settlers and joined the
higher class
• The most of the natives suffered through a process of proletarization that
increased the workforce for plantation agriculture
Political
• The imposition of the foreigner power led to conflicts among the natives
and settlers.
• It would be the birth of the anti-imperialism
• The native demanded more respect for their traditions and more
participation in the govern

3. Cultural, ecological and geographical
consequences:
CULTURAL
• The natives lost their identity and had it replaced by the settlers ´modes of behaviour
• The Christian religions displaced the pre-existing creeds in many areas
ECOLOGICAL
• New methods of agricultural exploitation and unknown animal and vegetal species, led to deep
alterations or the total destruction of the natural and original ecosystems
• The big tropical jungles were deforested , rivers polluted...
GEOGRAPHICAL CONSEQUENCES:
• The creation of artificial borders , far different from the pre-existing ones, forced the union or
segregation of the tribal groups
• All of this provokes racial conflicts and civil wars....NOW

4. CONSEQUENCES FOR THE
METROPOLIS:
Economical point of view
• Imperialism was used to stimulated the industrialization
• The principal aim of the metropolis was to obtain lots
of cheap raw materials and to distribute products
manufactured
International point of view
• It constituted an inexhaustible source of tensions and
conflicts
• It will be a cause of the First World War