SOSC 2800 Final: SOSC2800 Final Exam Review
11 May 2017
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Questions: compare and contrast colonialism in the americas, asia, and africa. Colonialism in the americas natives extinct after a few generations. Latin america achieved independence earlier on than asia and africa (50 years earlier) Asia resisted to rule, the indigenous rulers were bribed by europeans to. In africa the climate leading europeans to go to more tropical locations. In asia it was divide and conquer method influence their followers in asia: compare and contrast france and britain"s different strategies of colonialism. Focused on centralization (notion of power being concentrated in france) and assimilation. Indigenous societies and their cultural systems were seen as inferior to. Thus french colonial powers enabled colonial subjects to fully assimilate to french culture (language, education, appearance etc. ) French viewed themselves as superior not because of race, but due to culture ( cultured ) Thus, if indigenous people fully assimilated, they would be seen as equal to the french.
