Saturday, March 5, 2011

Imperialism: Helping or Hurting?

Helping
 -Technology spreads along with literacy
-Quinine protected people form malaria, a disease carried by mosquitoes.Spread of health clinics
-Obtaining control of the Suez Canal allows us to transport goods faster.
-It helped the United States because Liberia promised to only trade with us and no one else
-Spreads democracy

Hurting
-Europe thought themselves to be better than everyone else because of their advanced technology. This formed the idea of racism.
-Many missionaries tried to Christianize the people of Africa because they believed that their religion was the only one that should be practiced.
-African culture was destroyed as the French tried to control it and their way of life.
-Spread of slavery. Africans were shipped to plantations in Europe and America.

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