Colonial Super Powers: From its birth in early 15th century to its decline in dominance by the 20th

There is an extensive history empirical power, repeatedly and successfully controlling another state or group of people in order to exploit it economically. In Southeast Asia there were 5 colonial powers; the United Kingdom, France, Dutch, America, and Japan, their primary motives for establishing colonies in the region was to get control of trade routes, to get access to the natural resources and raw materials, and the cheap labor, as well as to establish naval and military bases so that they could amass influence in the region. Prior to World War II, a third of the world 's area was colonized by European colonial powers between the 15th and 19th centuries, and another third of the world 's population were in colonies, dependencies, protectorates, or dominions. In this essay, I will focus on the British and French colonization in Southeast Asia. The British-controlled Burma, most of the Malayan peninsula, and Singapore, which was a strategic port and later became a naval base for the British. Meanwhile, the French controlled the adjoining countries of Vietnamese, Cambodia, and Laos, collectively known as French Indochina. This period of colonization in Southeast Asia brought many changes to the regions society, politics, and the economy. For instance, both colonial powers introduced political changes such as introducing a centralized form of government and changes to the justice systems in many of the colonized countries. There were also social impacts resulting from the

For example, the original thirteen colonies that Britain established on North America’s east coast have gone on to become the world’s main superpower, the United States of America. Britain’s colony in China, Hong Kong, has gone on to become Asia’s premiere financial center with Singapore (another British jewel) trailing just behind. Even Britain’s prisoners set up the only first-world country in the Southern Hemisphere, Australia! Compare this to Spain’s imperial efforts, for example Mexico is the only third world country in North America and has always struggled to overcome a legal system plagued with corruption. Why is it that the British colonies were so successful and the colonies of other countries such failures in comparison? I feel the answer to that is British law. British law has been a keystone in these colonies success. Their political ideals have helped sculpt the success stories of the modern world, albeit there have been some failures such as India and Rhodesia where there were civilians revolting against their new leaders. The British education system helped produce a new class of educated Africans and Asians that were able seek employment once they had completed their schooling.

The 19th and 20th century imperialism was substantially about the exploitation of the empires colonies and thus was not a necessarily an ‘civilizing mission’. During the 19th and 20th century European powers tried to justify their actions, by claiming that they were trying to re-educate the native population through education, this included Christian missionaries which were placed throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America. However, it became apparent that these powers gained significant wealth by commercializing items that could not be obtained otherwise. Two key examples of imperialism in the 19th and 20th century includes the Belgium Congo whereby Leopold II gained significant wealth through rubber plantations and the British

During the 1600-1700s, a typical colonial planter felt there were problems with equality under the the British government, while they simultaneously disregarded the views of slaves and indentured servants, and American Indians. Colonial planters felt exploited by the British government. The document, “The Propriety of Colonial Subordination, a British View, 1726”, stated how Britain strongly condemned the “English plantations in America” in their defiance to the Crown. In 1764, the British enforced the Currency Act taking colonial currency out of circulation as a way to stronger enforce mercantilism. This angered the planters because they feared an increase of taxes and that they would not be able to pay their loans without paper money. Colonists were

spanned around the globe. Britain’s colonial empire, in the making since the early 1700’s, still

Many times throughout history imperialism has been practiced by various major super powers of the world. For example, Western Europe decided they would extend their power after the Industrial Revolution since they became so wealthy from it. They expanded their empires into Africa, India and China. This is known as the New Imperialism. The desire for expansion was motivated by the hope of economic growth and more power. There are five types of Imperialism and many positive and negative views about them.

Only the strongest, the imperialist powers will rule the world. As nationalism grows, the citizens of the European nations show pride and love toward their country, along with this developed Social Darwinism, where the Europeans viewed themselves as more superior human beings, all this led to New Imperialism during the early 1900s. In addition, with the new advancement in technology the European decided to change the world for the better good. According to Document 1, colonies are a valuable source of money to the European nations for many reasons. Despite being a powerful nation, the lack of raw material was a problem, thus the colonies provided the materials. The raw materials weren’t the sole reason to colonize a weak nation, the nation was overpopulated, thus

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

While Britain’s colonies flourished in America, Spain’s floundered. The colonies focused on searching for gold, converting the Native Americans to Catholicism, didn’t export from the colonies, and kept to themselves. The French and British colonies were successful, doing nearly the exact opposite, so France and Britain grew more powerful than Spain and the Netherlands. The colonies in America were important money-makers for the warring countries, and were soon squeezed for the profit.

The primary language in Haiti is Haitian Creole and French. Creole is the language that’s used in every day conversation with family and friends. Creole is a unique mixture of French, Taino, English, Spanish and numerous African languages. However French is used in the government office different businesses. It’s also stated that only the educated adults or secondary school students speak French, with varying levels of fluency and accuracy. Those that speak French on the regular tend to shun those who do not.

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Throughout history, there has been a struggle for power and who deserves to have power. In the late 1800s, Great Britain dominated the world, or was the "superpower". They maintained two major colonies, South Africa and India, through imperialism. Imperialism is the domination by one country of the political, economic, and cultural life of another country. Great Britain was motivated to do this to create a market for new goods, get resources, and spread Christianity and nationalism. Most importantly, they thought that the white European Christian male was superior to all other races, known as Social Darwinism. Though many cultural heritages from South Africa and India were lost, there were major benefits for industrializing these two undeveloped countries. Schools and medical clinics were being built in Africa, there was better infrastructure in India, and the Indian legal system was revised by Great Britain.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the British Empire was the biggest global superpower. The British became a superpower during this time due to colonial rule. From colonisation they gained economically from the cheap raw materials. Maintaining colonial rule depended on military power. But when Britain started to decolonise its Empires they lost the title of a superpower. This was due to : economic decline,

The British colonies succeeded in winning independence as a sovereign nation and the French Bourgeoisie overthrew the monarchy, serving as the universal model for revolution. The imperial powers of Europe were seeing their sources of raw goods disappearing as periodicals containing French ideals of liberty, fraternity and property reached the corners of the colonized world. Naturally, the European colonial powers needed to actively seek new untapped territories.