COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM 1870 1914
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colonial economies shifted away from subsistence farming to cash crop economies
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profits from natural resources such as copper rubber and tin failed to benefit the native population
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railroads and bridges were built across the continent
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all of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Imperialism adversely affected the colonies. Under foreign rule, native culture and industry were destroyed. Imported goods wiped out local craft industries. By using colonies as sources of raw materials and markets for manufactured goods, colonial powers held back the colonies from developing industries.
Detailed explanation-2: -By plundering Africa’s resources and carving it up into artificial states, Europe’s colonial powers created vicious cycles of violence, poverty, and authoritarianism that are playing out to this day.
Detailed explanation-3: -The European imperialist push into Africa was motivated by three main factors, economic, political, and social. It developed in the nineteenth century following the collapse of the profitability of the slave trade, its abolition and suppression, as well as the expansion of the European capitalist Industrial Revolution.