Effects of Imperialism on Africa, Asia and the Middle East

1. Economic Impacts Q. How did colonial rule transform the economic lives of the colonized peoples? The Expansion of the Global Economy – integration of African and Asian economies into the new industrial capitalist economy Cash-crop Agriculture – (how did cash crop agriculture transform the lives of the colonized peoples?)

Mining – especially gold, diamonds, coal, tin, bauxite, etc Labor – forced labor & wage labor How does forced labor work? What’s the difference between forced labor and wage labor? What does forced labor say about the Europeans who claimed they had ended slave trade and slavery? How did the colonized peoples respond to the wage labor demand? How did wage labor change the lives of the colonized peoples?

Assessing Colonial Economic Development: What was the overall economic impact of colonial rule? Did colonial rule bring progress to the colonized peoples? (see pages 939-940)

2. Political Impacts Emergence of modern states, new political boundaries and their implications New national languages and formation of new identities

3. Social & Cultural Impacts: Religion – expansion of Christianity and its interactions with non-western religions like Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and African Indigenous Religions Expansion of western education and western cultures (What impact did Western education have on colonial societies?) See pages 941-943 Meeting of western and non-western cultures – change and adaptation Women and colonial rule (how did colonial rule change the lives of African women?) See pages 938-939

Effects of imperialism, cont’d Effects of colonialism on the imperial powers How did imperialism affect the industrialized/imperial powers themselves, e.g. United States, western European nations, etc.)