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Europe was originally rich in resources, but as Industrialization increased and populations grew, the continent became too small for all the people/powers.

Since the 1400s, Europe has explored the oceans and set up trading posts and colonies on far away lands.

Colonization

Around the 1800’s, colonization changed…

Nations moved from settling for trading posts with other cultures, to grabbing as much territory as possible.

North America

South America

India

Australia

Africa

Columbian ExchangeExchange between New World cultures and

European powers

Extinction for most of the native cultures that first interacted with the European colonizers

Singapore:British trading post in present day Burma

Foothold

Vietnam:French invasion was originally a movement by

missionaries to spread Christianity. Jesuits

King MongkutKing Chulalongkorn

Prior to 1800, China was just as powerful as EVERY European nation combined.

Was able to resist European influence….

At first….

China restricted European influence to a few harbor cities on the Eastern coast of China

China had no use for inferior European cultures

Opium addiction ravishes China5,000 chests in 182016,000 chests in 183020,000 chests in 183870,000 chests in 1858

After 2000 years of “relative” stability the Chinese monarchy falls in the Tai Ping RebellionImperial China never recovers….

Controlled by the viceroy, Britain viewed India as the “prized jewel” of

the empireBritish people were set as ruling class, and the

native Indians were left to be governed by another foreign power

1 viceroy ruled 300 million people…

Prior to British rule, India had been impossible to control and was constantly full of warfare

British rule brought stabilization to the country

At the cost of…MoneyFoodRespectculture