History 1401E Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: East India Company, Cecil Rhodes, Niger River
19 Aug 2016
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The colonizing nations tended to be more industrialized a. i. 1. b. The colonies produced raw goods of the industrialized countries a. i. 2. This division of labour worked to favour the colonizing nations as they were more diversified a. i. 2. a. Unlike the colonies, they were not dependent on one resource: most of the benefits of this international economic specialization accrued to the imperialist powers b. i. The wealth was going to the colonizing nations: new patterns of migration, migration within the british empire a. i. Indians going from one place in indian to another a. ii. This migration would probably have never happened without colonization: cultural influences, clothing styles a. i. The elite of the nation tended to adopt new clothing styles: language b. i. Many nations did not have a single, set language b. ii. One local language would become the main one b. iii. Some languages adopted western-style characters: forms of education, western games d. i. This is the period when soccer became an international sport d. ii.
