AHL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Putumayo River, Peruvian Amazon, Congo River

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Interdisciplinary Study in Arts
• Course: AHL 1100
• Professor: Eric Allina, Meredith Terretta, Jan Grabowski

Document Summary

Done by existing and new imperial powers in europe, na, and japan - new industrial powers. Britain, france, germany, russia, japan, belgium, and the united states, portugal. Fast and with little consideration for wishes of existing populations. Affected: africa (all but ethiopia), south east asia, east asia (taiwan, korea) Technological advances, now a very large gap between colonies and colonizers. Disease kept europeans out of tropical climates, quinine helped to stop these. Steamships let europeans into the rivers (congo river basin) Telegraphs allowed faster communications between colonies and colonizer. Ivory (pool, candles), rubber (tires, rainboots), cloves (toothpaste), tortoise shell (brushes, combs), palm oil (soap, industrial lube), beeswax (candles) Global trade was now in a larger scale as it was more affordable, more mass demand. Native death rate 4/5 at peak rubber collection, 32,000 in 5 years - left 8,000. Violent to natives if not meeting quotas as rubber ran out. Coastal long history of european involvement, not in centre.