COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Close working conditions helped diseases to spread.
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Spanish immigrants were displaced from their lands.
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A need for workers encouraged expansion of slavery.
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Indigenous peoples’ diets became unhealthy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Q. What problem resulted from the creation of sugar plantations in Brazil during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Close working conditions helped diseases to spread.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sugar undoubtedly led to the unprecedented concentration of slaves in the areas of Campos, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo in the late 18th century. Estimates from 1789 show that the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro reached 168, 709 inhabitants, of whom 82, 448 were slaves, corresponding to 48.9 percent of the total.
Detailed explanation-3: -Because these crops required large areas of land, the plantations grew in size, and in turn, more labor was required to work on the plantations. Plantation labor shifted away from indentured servitude and more toward slavery by the late 1600s.
Detailed explanation-4: -After the abolition of slavery, indentured laborers from India, China, Portugal and other places were brought to the Caribbean to work in the sugar industry. These plantations produced 80 to 90 percent of the sugar consumed in Western Europe, later supplanted by European-grown sugar beet.
Detailed explanation-5: -Sugar plantation brought great economic prosperity to countries like Portugal, Netherland, France, and Britain, but it also caused a lot of political problems such as war between European powers to get colonies such as one occurred between Netherland and Portugal over Brazil and slave rebellions.