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D266 World History Diverse Cultures and Global Connections
PASSED TASK 3 Rise and Fall of Empires 2024 NEW Western
Governors University
Introduction
The "new imperialism" of the nineteenth century profoundly affected global power
structures as European countries engaged in renewed efforts to expand and conquer.
As nations like Britain and France lost their North American colonial footholds, they
turned their sights to lands and peoples like Asia and Africa to seek wealth,
territories, labor, and authority. Other nations—like Germany, Belgium, and Italy—
joined this imperial competition. All European countries in the scramble used various
justifications for the invasion of other countries—from religion to nationalism to
"civilization" efforts. This new imperialism also brought with it fierce and dynamic
resistance tactics among colonized peoples who refused to relinquish their countries
to foreign powers. Strategies varied in each region as individuals organized, leaders
emerged, and independence movements took shape to fight back well into the
twentieth century. Decolonization relied on internal and external factors to the
empires—with political and economic pressures combined with local opposition to
force change.
In this task, you will explore the example of one empire that expanded in this period
and one colony controlled by that empire that strove for and obtained its
independence. You will also consider how the twentieth-century Cold War affected the
decolonization process and the nation-states that emerged.
A. Describe the rise of European empires in the 19th century by doing the
following:
1. Explain two reasons (e.g., economic, political, technological, ideological) why
one European empire expanded in the 19th century.
For the majority of the 18th and 19th centuries, the British colonies in India
were not under the control of the British Crown but were under the BEIC
(British East India Company). The. BEIC did not come to take over the
territory initially, but only because it was interested in trade. The wars to
control India’s wealth between the French East India Companies and the
, British in the 1740s resulted in British economic and political dominance in
India.
Again, trade was one of India's central attractions; cotton textiles were of
higher quality there. Trading with China was a little harder; the British only
had Opium to trade, which China was interested in.
(WGU, Chapter 1)
2. Please explain how the empire discussed in part A1 established and
maintained control in one of the areas they colonized.
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