POLS 2080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: East India Company, Time 100, First Age
27 Nov 2015
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At this time 100 millions of people in europe died from a disease. Hunger for new resources that drove the explorers to go and explore. The french, english and dutch also started competing for overseas territories. A lot of small, individual endeavor (hudson"s bay company coming over for fur trade, religious groups looking for freedom) Colonizers in canada were doing their own thing. Napoleonic wars for dominance in europe (french against everyone else), french rose quickly, took over territory and pushed further east in europe. Tried to enter russia in the winter, which was not good. South america went through wars of independence, and got. People mainly resided around the coasts their freedom. We need raw materials to feed this industrialization (growth) To keep wealth that explosion of economic growth, europe needed to spread out. Colonialism: territorial conquest, occupation and direct control of one country by another. *the practice, when you"re actually doing what you"ve inspired to.
