Question

How could you explain the consequences of colonialism and imperialism?

Answer 1

Consequences of Colonialism: Another impact of imperialism was the export of Western values - resource exploitation, consumerism and materialism to the colonies. In the meantime, the Enlightenment began to shift West societies towards values such as democracy, independent judiciary, free press and escape from religious tyranny.

Consequences of Imperialism: forcefully kept colonies under a fragile agricultural economy 9 while still depriving them of their finite natural resources. Thus, imperialism had a highly negative effect on the economic growth of colonized nations.

Answer 2

Many colonies had only one resource developed, which leads to a lot of problem, because if the demand for that resource drops, it would lead to financial difficulties. Most of the time used-to-be-colonies only have one resource developed because the countries that took over them only allowed them to grow that one crop, which led to a drastic decrease of the variety of things they can sell in the global market.

This meant that the countries ability to prosper goes by how much demand other countries need.

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