New Imperialism

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    Africa

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    Asia

  • Environmental

    Nguyen Dynasty ´ s construction projects in Southeast Asia caused problems with people due to hard work in building canals, roads, and palaces.
  • Economic

    Opium was smuggled into China, it used to be sold. Huge profits and the cravings of addicts led to
    rapid increases in sales, from 4,500 chests a year to 10,000 a year.
  • Political

    After the war the dutch established a
    particularly exploitive policy called the Culture System this caused Indonesian peasants to be forced to plant a fifth of their land for the dutch.
  • Political

    Since the British had mostly control of the sea they easily shut down key chinese
    ports and forced the Chinese to negotiate with them.
  • Social

    As many as 30,000 Vietnamese Christians were killed because the king and his advisers believed that christianity would undermine confucian moral
    values and the unity of the Vietnamese state.
  • Social

    By 1850 China, for centuries the world’s most populous country, had more
    than 400 million people which was one of their largest problems.
  • Environmental

    Effects from population growing in china caused, farm sizes shrank, and forests
    were put to the plow
  • Political

    The United States decided to
    force the Japanese to open to trade. Commodore Matthew Perry steamed into Edo Bay and demanded diplomatic negotiations
    with the emperor.
  • Environmental

    Because Japan’s land and population were so much
    smaller than China’s, the Western powers never expected much from
    Japan as a trading partner.
  • Economic

    Japan's meiji restoration marked a turning point, led to them to
    pursuing a strong army, and a rich nation.
  • Economic

    The dominant modern
    was losing its industrial leadership, as its share of
    global manufacturing output dropped from 33 percent to just 14 percent.
  • Social

    Japan had been decentralized by the daimyo,
    The power over the population was under the control of the daimyo.
  • The Benefits and Detriments of British Rule

    Stopped the female infanticide, gangs who harmed citizens,human sacrifice, and the slave trade was ended and the owning of slaves was forbidden.
  • Environmental

    Instead of steamships, small steamboats were used to travel back and forth along the coast, they could also carry goods up and down Africa’s great rivers.
  • Political

    Colonies became important for political and diplomatic reasons which caused others to consider them crucial to national security, military
    power, and international prestige.
  • Social

    Places raised tariff barriers, abandoning their century-
    long practice of free trade and laissez-faire capitalism. People were also unable to export their goods and faced excess production, market saturation, and high
    unemployment.
  • Economic

    Manila became crucial for trades between Mexico and China. Spanish introduced land ownership which led to the rise of a local elite class in the Philippines.