British Imperialism

Geography has always played a major role in the development of civilizations, colonies and nations. For the British colonies in North America, geography came to be the most influential factor in their evolution during the 1600’s. Geography was vital in impacting and determining the economy, lifestyle, and population of the colonies, with the most obvious differences between the north and the south.

This decade portrays the exploration of the Europeans to the American colonies which allowed England, France, Holland, Spain, and British to colonize with other lands and obtain power by expanding their territory. Nevertheless, England rose as the country with the dominant colonial power. Throughout this decade, the demand for silver and other valued items influenced trade globally by commercializing and strengthening European trade. In addition, the desire for power and control enriched the economy of the Europeans. The rise of European colonization also shaped cultural globalization since traders established various ethnic societies in foreign regions. European explorers were to stop at nothing in order to achieve success in expanding their

British imperialism had a negative impact on the politics and economics of india because the British were running the country for their own good and not for the good of the indians. In contrast the British had customs that ultimately ended up benefiting the Indians.

British imperialism had a negative impact on the politics of India because of the establishment of the framework for India that leads to their downfall and the Indian Army which they used to control their own kind. According to Dr.Lalvani, the British established the framework for India’s justice system, civil services, loyal army, and the efficient loyal police. (Paragraph #6). While this is true, the framework didn’t include the Indians, because “Of 960 civil offices, 900 are occupied by English men and 60 by natives”(Doc. #2). British laws often benefited the British and were designed to limit the freedom of speech of the Indians, for example, the Rowlatt Act in 1919. (Gandhi). This evidence shows that the British, when creating the framework for the new and improved India wanted to benefit from it while trying to lower the Indian’s and limit the

The British originally came in as a decent sized company in East India, but when the sepoys attacked that company, England sent their whole army and navy to get the sepoys under control, but while doing that they also took over all of India. Although economically and socially the Indians did benefit in some ways, the British established a massive infrastructure by controlling India and having a huge political, economic, and social impact on India that helped them more than it helped the Indians.

Would you like if someone came into your house and start changing everything you do? Well, that is what the British did to India but on a bigger scale. The British thought that Indian had a lot of resources, which it did it was called “Jewel in the crown.” So, they came in and started changing their political, economic, and social ways of life. There were some positives and some negative to what happens when the British control India. This was a negative effect of India because they had no responsibility in their government, forced to grow cash crops, and learning the English language. Although I believe it was negative, some people believe it was a positive effect on India.

It is said that the colonization of Africa by European settlers was significant in terms of politics, economic advances or economic failures, as well as the advancement of power and destruction of pre-colonial African Cultures. The two largest European powers striving to colonize Africa are France and Britain. There are three reasons for Europe’s interest in colonizing Africa. The first reason is the fact that Africa was an unknown and mysterious continent that has yet to be explored by European settlers or any settler for fact. Because of this Europe wanted to gather scientific data of the unknown African continent. The expeditions of explorers like Samuel Baker, Joseph Thompson, Richard Burton, John Speke, and some others in the nineteenth

During the 1700’s through the 1900’s empires like France and Britain began to take over land in various continents and turned them into colonies. Although Britain and France saw this as a positive thing, the colonies proved to be difficult to control. Today it is hard to tell if the acquisition of these colonies was more beneficial or detrimental to their respective motherlands. Britain was the first European nation to imperialize. This is because England is an island and was running out of natural resources, and with growing population, there was no way to tell when England would run out of resources. Britain also had the world’s strongest navy. This brought up the idea to imperialize. Some other reasons for imperialism was the desire for

British Imperialism had a negative impact on the politics of India because the British took away control of the country for their benefit and enforced laws that discriminated against Indians. Lavani claims the British “established the framework for India’s justice system, civil service, loyal army, and efficient police force.” However, this framework was not intended for the Indians, but for the British. For example, 94% of government positions were held by Englishman (Doc. #2). These people had “no permanent interest in their well-being” and returned to England after “forty-five or fifty-five years of age with large pensions (Doc. #2).” This shows the British government used India as a source of wealth and controlled the people without

Throughout history as well as in modern times, revolution, imperialism and colonialism have played part in the rise and fall of governance and power structures in the world. Wars have occurred to gain power over a government or society. Colonialism benefits the motherland by sending citizens into a new territory and securing raw materials for the economic benefit of the mother country. King James l, in 1604 granted The Virginia Company, a group on entrepreneurs, a land grant in the Chesapeake Bay of North America to establish a colony. Captain John Smith headed up the colony and the expedition was launched in hopes of finding a trade route to the Orient, as well hoping to find gold. The Virginia Company selected the Chesapeake area because it was uninhabited by Native Americans.

The Spanish war gave the United States an empire. At the end of the Spanish war the United States took Spanish colonies such as Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and many other islands. The creation of the American Empire leads to the end of the Spanish Empire. The United States wanted to build up the countries so that markets would open up and purchase American goods and to improve the American economy.

In the past few centuries, multiple countries largely involved in imperialising had been in Western Europe. They had imperialism in places such as Asia, Africa, and America. When a country imperialized, they extend their rule into a foreign country. Imperializing a country allows trade with the country that is taking the rule and also their allies. With this in mind, it is clear that there is a worldwide economy coming together through the trade of goods and services.

There are so many reasons as to why India and Great Britain both got benefits from imperialism. Great Britain, the most powerful country in the world (at the time) just so happened to be very imperialistic. They took over India, and brought a lot of *civilized features to India. This helped shape the India everyone knows about today. British Imperialism vastly improved India because the location was great, the resources were satisfactory, and the country had a very immense population.

When we look at how cartography influenced the efforts of the European powers to colonize cartography is an important fact during those times. Cartography is the science of making maps which we know is crucial to identifying land marks, elevation, and where people lived in different areas. The world was divided up into separate areas, as Europe was explored it was marked and helped colonies lay claim to land that they discovered. It allowed for cross cultural encounters. Cartography played an important role also in the power struggle between European and American Indians. Maps allowed for indigenous people to gain, administer, legitimize, and codify power in Colonial North America. It allowed for the idea of how much space was available to become more accurate. To form a complete picture of the continent European cartographers had to synthesize the information from multiple sources. Geronimo de Chaves’s map of Florida for instance,

The creation of a world market led to the Europeans busying to consolidate their power in all directions, this resulted in the thirty years. The British had committed regicide, as well as fighting in the Anglo-Dutch wars which arose out of commercial rivalry. Arising amongst the turmoil, geography underwent a “Scientific Revolution” (Hefferman, 2009, pp.05). Cartography and navigational skills led to researchers to explore further, which led to scientific discoveries and conscious data gathering. In this period, you could perhaps say the interests of a naturalist and a navigator were one, as see with the likes of Linnaeus and his new classification system. This scientific revolution led to new methodologies, language, instruments which all had an influence on geographical traditions. This was a truly significant change, since before expeditions were powered by imperial zealotry tinged with evangelic instincts (Livingstone, 1996). The achievements of this era are well documented, for example William Dampier (1651-1715) was the first Englishman to scientifically examine the west and northwest parts of Australia. This was significant as it was the first voyage by the British for pure scientific exploration (Crone, 1964). Then in 1769, James Cook (1728-90) transformed circumnavigation from, hit and miss, to well-masterminded expeditions. He opened the south hemisphere for exploitation as these explorations entwined with commercial backing and