Question

Many European countries competed with each other to add new territory to their empires in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most of the land they took was in Asia and Africa. Describe the effects of the new imperialism on the peoples of the conquered territories. Give at least three specific examples.

Answer 1

Imperialism had consequences that affected the colonial nations, Europe, and the world. It also led to increased competition among nations and to conflicts that would disrupt world peace in 1914. European imperialism did not begin in the 1800s.

Between the 1870s and 1900, Africa faced European imperialist aggression, diplomatic pressures, military invasions, and eventual conquest and colonization. At the same time, African societies put up various forms of resistance against the attempt to colonize their countries and impose foreign domination.

British desire for natural resources, slave labors and political dominance brought about long-term effects to South Africa, the negative effects include widespread racial discrimination and economic exploitation, but there were few positive effects which were the advances in agriculture, mining industry and education.

The European imperialism in Africa produced three main effects that were manifested in the form of death of the inhabitants due to European diseases, shortage of natural resources and an increase in revolutions and wars after uprisings in many countries.