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

Answer:

1. The degredation of local economies and colonial deindustrialization

2. An unheaval of traditional life and religion

3. The fostering of nationalism in colonial societies

Explanation:

Examples:

1. The destruction of the Bengal fabric industry by the East India Company

2. The presence of EIC missionaries in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Men like Padre Jennings directly influenced the Sepoy Mutiny by creating tensions in the local Hindu and Muslim populations of Delhi and Meerut.

3. The rise of the Indian National Congress, the Brahmo-Samaj in India, and the Vietminh in Vietnam.