HST 101 Lecture Notes - Import Substitution Industrialization, Hereford (Cattle), Midwestern United States
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Religious and political changes: outside of algeria, kenya, and south africa, few europeans lived in africa. Missionaries introduced christianity (except in ethiopia, where it was indigenous). Islam spread through the influence and example of african traders: the contrast between the liberal ideas imparted by western education and the realities of racial discrimination under colonial rule contributed to the rise of nationalism. Early nationalist leaders and movements such as blaise diagne in senegal, the african. National congress in south africa, and pan-africanists like w. e. b. Garvey from america had little influence until after world war ii, when africans who had served in the allied war effort came back with new, radical ideas. 20: despite periodic famines due to drought, india"s fertile land allowed the indian population to increase from 250 million in 1900 to 389 million in 1941. Population growth brought environmental pressure, deforestation, and a declining amount of farm land per family.
