HIAF 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Early American Currency, Cash Crop, De Beers
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This would a long term 1000 yr. They thought eventually africans would rule themselves but would take very long. Believed that they had the right to control the whole world. Global empires would persist into the future. Extractive tributary states- states that demand labor, taxes, or natural resources with no reference to the interests of the population. Forcing people to work: encourage people to work in particular sectors of the economy. Top two sectors of extraction work: agriculture, mining. Europeans want to build railroads, ports, etc to extract resources: but at end of the day africans pay for it with taxes and labor. African societies were already producing things like palm oil in high scale. Developing agriculture to produce things that were in demand in. Even in advertisements saw references to africa. Climate and soil were ideal for african climates.
