Effects of Imperialism on Africa, Asia and the Middle East

1. Effects of Imperialism on Africa, Asia and the Middle East

2. 1. Economic Impacts • Q. How did colonial rule transform the economic lives of the colonized peoples? • The Expansion of the Global Economy – integration of African and Asian economies into the new industrial capitalist economy • Cash-crop Agriculture – (how did cash crop agriculture transform the lives of the colonized peoples?)

3. Mining – especially gold, diamonds, coal, tin, bauxite, etc • Labor – forced labor & wage labor • How does forced labor work? • What’s the difference between forced labor and wage labor? • What does forced labor say about the Europeans who claimed they had ended slave trade and slavery? • How did the colonized peoples respond to the wage labor demand? • How did wage labor change the lives of the colonized peoples?

4. Assessing Colonial Economic Development: • What was the overall economic impact of colonial rule? Did colonial rule bring progress to the colonized peoples? (see pages 939-940)

5. 2. Political Impacts • Emergence of modern states, new political boundaries and their implications • New national languages and formation of new identities

6. 3. Social & Cultural Impacts: • Religion – expansion of Christianity and its interactions with non-western religions like Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and African Indigenous Religions • Expansion of western education and western cultures (What impact did Western education have on colonial societies?) See pages 941-943 • Meeting of western and non-western cultures – change and adaptation • Women and colonial rule (how did colonial rule change the lives of African women?) See pages 938-939

7. Effects of imperialism, cont’d • Effects of colonialism on the imperial powers • How did imperialism affect the industrialized/imperial powers themselves, e.g. United States, western European nations, etc.)