Behind Europe's expansion had a massive impact on the Industrial Revolution. This gave rise to new economic needs. productivity of industrial technology created the need for extensive raw materials and agricultural products. Europe needed to sell its own products. Britain was exporting 60 percent of its cotton cloth production. Part of the European and American fascination with china during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries lay in the enormous market potential represented by its huge population.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, the Americans represented the first phase of European colonial conquests. It was focused on Asia and Africa rather than in the Western Hemisphere. The construction of these European empires involved military force or the threat of it. Europeans had to fight long and hard to create empires\. The passage to colonial status occurred in various ways for people of India and Indonesia. The process involved endless but peaceful negotiations among the completing great powers about "who got what."
Although violence was a prominent feature of colonial life, both during conquest and after, Many men found employment, status, and security in European armed forces. Both colonial governments and private missionary organizations had an interest in promoting a measure of European education.
Colonial rule affected the lives of its subject people in many ways but pronounced change was in their way of working. To various degrees, old ways of working were eroded almost everywhere in the colonial world. A flood of inexpensive textiles from Britons new factories. Iron smelting largely disappeared in Africa.
Many Asian and African peoples had produced quite willingly for an international market long before they were enclosed within colonial societies. British authorities in Burma, acted to encourage rice production under small farmers by ending and earlier prohibition on rice exports.
In pre colonial Africa, women were almost everywhere active farmers, with responsibility for planting .As demands as the colonial economy grew, women's lives were increasingly diverged from mens lives. Further increasing women's workload and differentiating their lives from men, men sought employment in the cities, on settler farms, or in mines. The colonial economy, provided a measure of opportunity for enterprising women.
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Europeans began to look at Africa as a source of raw materials, opportunity for investment, and market for industrial products. The board game became a very competitive process but the British were determined that no major European power should be allowed to control the headwaters of the Nile River. In North America, the European rivalries for territory involver great Britain which occupied Egypt in 1881. One exception to the general European takeover of Africa during the scramble was the kingdom of Ethiopia.
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