POLB90H3 Chapter Notes -Mahatma Gandhi, Discovery History, French Revolution
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In many areas, imperialism took the form of colonalization by white settler families who displaced the local people, often violently. Modernizationists does not pay much attention to imperialism: they implied that conviction that third world societies are traditional . Marxists see imperialism as critical to understanding of the third world and its poverty: they see imperialism as having shattered old class structures. Imperialism created the national boundaries of most third world countries: created national languages, the imperialists brought with them public health measures that lowered morality and caused the unprecedented population explosion in the third world. A good date for european imperialism would be the year of 1492, columbus set out his first voyage of discovery. History of european imperialism falls under 3 periods: 1492-1776 global expansion. The development of ship building led to travel and breaking of isolation. Spanish forced the native americans into bondage both in agriculture and in the mines. Portuguese opened the sea route to india.
