Words: 461
Western civilizations dominated the world by enforcing their culture and systems upon weaker nations. Regions such as Africa, the Middle East, and India were severely impacted positively and negatively by the imperialism of the west. Two of those cultures that were affected in a very similar way during this time period by the effects of imperialism were Africa and India. In both places wars and violence occurred but new technologies were brought by the west that helped improved the civilizations. However Africa and India responded differently to the way the west imposed there economic and social ways upon the people.
Now focusing in Asia and Africa, rather than the Western Hemisphere, were colonial conquests. This featured a number of new countries-Germany, Italy, Belgium, the united States, and Japan-who just became Involved In the colonial conquests. The Spanish and Portuguese only played minor roles. In mainland Asia and Africa, the 19th century European conquests nowhere had as devastating results as did on the Native Americans. The European colonial conquests were conditioned by Europe Industrial Revolution. During the period of 1750; 1 914, Western intervention was a common thing as
European states began to believe that imperial expansion and colonial domination were crucial for the survival of their states and societies as well as their personal fortunes. India and Africa were colonized so quickly for their resources and out of competition that other European states would colonize them first. Both India and Africa had violent reactions to European colonization but the effect was different between the two. For India, the colonization, though had a very violent rebellion, linked India Into the global economy and provided better communication throughout the whole state.
For Africa the colonization often led to violent conflict with Indigenous people and the new boundaries the Europeans made cut across existing ethnic and political boundaries that weakened the Indigenous people. The boundaries would later cause drastic problems when the Europeans left examples would be the Apartheid in South Africa and the genocide in Rwanda. The British Empire in India grew out of mercantilism activities of the England East India Company. The company gained permission from the McHugh Empire to build forts on the coastlines for the trading agents to store commodities and transport jack to Europe.
As the McHugh Empire weakened; The East India Company took advantage of this weakness the merchants began campaigns to conquest India. They won official rule of McHugh officials and local authority then they enforced their rule with a small British army and a large number of Indian troops known as suppose. A very violent revolt against British rule by the suppose would begin. The suppose would receive rifles that fired bullets from cartridges.