Western Imperialism BY DAVID LOPEZ
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Academic Paragraph: Africa Western interests impacted Africa by
dividing up its states and conquering them, killing and defeating a
large number of Africans in their mission to imperialize, and
spreading religion to certain and many parts of Africa. By the 1900
nearly the whole continent of Africa had been under European
control, only Ethiopia in the northeast and Liberia on the west
coast remained independent. In the all the other states the
Europeans tightened their control and established colonial
governments in the years that they imperialized. When the British
were imperializing southward of Egypt they ran across Sudan where
there was a huge battle in which the Muslim tribesmen were easily
killed by the British with their new Maxim machine gun. This
impacted Africa by making it weaker and conquering more of it which
went to the Europeans. As more native ethnic groups were being
defeated others were getting ready to be the next ones to fall. In
Africa Catholic and Protestant missionaries were competing to
spread and convert people to Christianity. Also they built schools
which led to first contact with the two races. This changed the
African native culture because in some places like Ibo in Nigeria
people became highly Christianized. It increased the number of
Christian believers in Africa. Western interests impacted Africa by
having them conquer their states, killing and defeating a large
number of Africans, and they spread their main religion of
Christianity all over Africa.
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European Imperialism in Africa By 1900 the nearly the whole
continent had been carved up and placed under European rule Only
Ethiopia in the north and Liberia in the west coast were able to
fight off the invaders and maintain their independence The Berlin
conference laid down some basic rules for the European countries
and it made the game fair Germany established protectorates over
tribes in Togo, the region of Cameroon, south west Africa, and
later East Africa The French pressed forward in Algeria, then in
the Senegal coast, and north of the Congo River
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Defeated Africans In 1898 British troops met against native
Muslim tribesmen armed with spears who were defeated by the British
with their new weapon the Maxim machine gun In the Battle of
Omdurman the muslim tribesmen were killed as they were extremely
over powered with the new British technology As the Europeans
advanced on different areas of Africa they used their modern
weapons to defeat the Africans who were mostly armed with spears
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Spreading of Religion The spread of religion was a huge factor
in the reason for imperialism in Africa as Christians wanted to
spread their religion Catholic and Protestant missionaries competed
with Islam south of the Sahara, seeking to convert people and build
schools to spread the word of the gospel This lead to huge numbers
of Africans converting to Christianity, for example in places like
Ibo, Nigeria
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Academic Paragraph: Asia Western interests impacted certain
parts of Asia by blowing a hole in the wall of Chinese seclusion,
opening up the ports of Japan, and they also imperialized some of
the states in central and western Asia. Since the early 1800s the
Chinese ports were not opened to many westerners but the British
found a way to change that; by smuggling opium, getting the country
addicted then forcing them to trade with them. Britain forced
China, in the Treaty of Nanking, to cede the island of Hong Kong,
pay $100 million, and open up four large cities to unlimited
foreign trade with low tariffs. This broke the long tradition that
China had of being self-sufficient. Much like the case in China the
case with Japan was similar. The country of Japan was closed off to
European influences and they would kill any one that got close. In
1853 using gunboat diplomacy the United States forced Japan to open
up its ports and being helpless the Japanese agreed to the terms.
They had opened Japan. This changed the policy that Japan had of
not being opened to foreigners but it was changed like China was,
by force. Russia conquered parts of Central Asia and the south of
Caucasus and the United states conquered the Philippines, forcing
them to fight but with no hope of winning. This also divided up
Asia, much like Africa, to be ruled by different European
countries. Western interests impacted Asia by opening up both China
and Japan going against their traditions of no foreign trade and
imperializing Asia much like Africa was in the late 1800s and early
1900s.
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China opens in trading The chinese civilization was
self-sufficient and carefully regulated its trade with Europe The
British got the chinese addicted to opium creating something that
the chinese needed to trade creating the opium trade In the treaty
of Nanking of 1842, the imperial government was forced to cede the
island of Hong Kong to Britain forever, pay $100 million in
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Japan is opened Much like China, Japan was sealed off from all
european influences because they wanted to preserve their culture
In 1853 United States Commodore Matthew Perry went into Japan and
using gunboat diplomacy he was able to negotiate with the emperor
In their treaty Japan was forced to open two ports and permit trade
The Western powers used their modern advances to take advantage of
the other countries and force them to take certain actions
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Asia faces imperialism In the 1880s the French took Indochina
The Dutch ruled the East Indies Russia conquered areas south of
Caucasus and in Central Asia The United States had control of the
Philippines Not only had Africa felt imperialism but Asia as well,
several different parts were conquered on the quest for European
imperialism