COLONIALISM Flashcards
Name the four greatest colonial powers in 1885
Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy
CONSEQUENCES OF COLONIALISM FOR THE COLONIES:
ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES:
Extractive economy: colonies were mere providers of cheap labour, new markets and cheap raw materials. The economy in the colonies was kept based on the 1st sector, particularly single-crop farming (plantation system) and extraction of minerals. Empires invested very little in the development (=industrialisation) of the colonies and therefore they did not care to open factories there.
SOCIAL: racism, colonised people became second or third class citizens, mere cheap labour or servants with no rights at all (they did not have a say in how their country should be run, of course, except a small elite but who were never considered equal to the colonisers)
POLITICAL: dependence (which has everlasting consequences even today, after decades of being independent) arbitrary new borders drawn at the Congress of Berlin / families and regions divided across these new artificial borders (a result of the Congress of Berlin)
CULTURAL: colonies lost in different degrees their traditions, beliefs and other cultural aspects such as their languages, acquiring the ones of the empire to a large extent
DEMOGRAPHIC:
Growth due to medical advances
The colonies provided colonising countries with cheap raw materials, and they bought finished products. As a result, those who benefited most from their relationship were colonising countries.
CONSEQUENCES FOR COLONIAL EMPIRES:
ECONOMIC
-Easy access to raw materials which benefited industrialisation
-Creation of new markets to sell my manufactured products (the colonies)🡺 trade increases
-Profit obtained from the difference between the price of raw materials (very cheap) and the price of the final product (expensive)
-Development of arms industry
POLITICAL
-Larger territories
-Increase prestige or international influence
-Increasing (ultra)nationalism
-Tensions among the European powers (+US, Japan)
-Arms race (countries will start producing & buying more and more weapons)
….
-1st world war (WWI)
SOCIAL
WEALTH BROUGHT *(demographic consequences since life expectancy increased, infant mortality decreased)
-better diet,
-better health services for all (creation of hospitals…)
-better lifestyle in general
-access to education for all for the 1st time in history:
compulsory education
-creation of public universities (for white men in the beginning)
CULTURAL
-Change in habits: exotic food like tea, curry, fashion,…
-Influence in “western” countries music: blues, rock, reggae, rap… have black roots
-New words from non-European languages
CONSEQUENCES OF COLONIALISM FOR THE COLONIES:
ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES
Extractive economy: colonies were mere providers of cheap labour, new markets and cheap raw materials. The economy in the colonies was kept based on the 1st sector, particularly single-crop farming (plantation system) and extraction of minerals. Empires invested very little in the development (=industrialisation) of the colonies and therefore they did not care to open factories there.
CONSEQUENCES OF COLONIALISM FOR THE COLONIES:
SOCIAL
racism, colonised people became second or third class citizens, mere cheap labour or servants with no rights at all (they did not have a say in how their country should be run, of course, except a small elite but who were never considered equal to the colonisers)
CONSEQUENCES OF COLONIALISM FOR THE COLONIES:
POLITICAL:
dependence (which has everlasting consequences even today, after decades of being independent) arbitrary new borders drawn at the Congress of Berlin / families and regions divided across these new artificial borders (a result of the Congress of Berlin)
CONSEQUENCES OF COLONIALISM FOR THE COLONIES
CULTURAL
colonies lost in different degrees their traditions, beliefs and other cultural aspects such as their languages, acquiring the ones of the empire to a large extent
Who benefited most from relationship( Colonisers-Colonizated)
The colonies provided colonising countries with cheap raw materials, and they bought finished products. As a result, those who benefited most from their relationship were colonising countries.
CONSEQUENCES OF COLONIALISM FOR/IN THE COLONIAL EMPIRES
(1870-1914)
ECONOMIC
-Easy access to raw materials which benefited industrialisation
-Creation of new markets to sell my manufactured products (the colonies)🡺 trade increases
-Profit obtained from the difference between the price of raw materials (very cheap) and the price of the final product (expensive)
-Development of arms industry
CONSEQUENCES OF COLONIALISM FOR/IN THE COLONIAL EMPIRES
(1870-1914)
POLITICAL
-Larger territories
-Increase prestige or international influence
-Increasing (ultra)nationalism
-Tensions among the European powers (+US, Japan)
-Arms race (countries will start producing & buying more and more weapons)
….
-1st world war (WWI)
CONSEQUENCES OF COLONIALISM FOR/IN THE COLONIAL EMPIRES
(1870-1914)
SOCIAL
WEALTH BROUGHT *(demographic consequences since life expectancy increased, infant mortality decreased)
-better diet,
-better health services for all (creation of hospitals…)
-better lifestyle in general
-access to education for all for the 1st time in history:
compulsory education
-creation of public universities (for white men in the beginning)
CONSEQUENCES OF COLONIALISM FOR/IN THE COLONIAL EMPIRES
(1870-1914)
CULTURAL
-Change in habits: exotic food like tea, curry, fashion,…
-Influence in “western” countries music: blues, rock, reggae, rap… have black roots
-New words from non-European languages
