Imperialism Project

Over the days we worked on a project on imperialism. What I learned was that imperialism is when one country tries to take over another country to gain control over their economic, social, and political lives. For the completion of this project we had to attach labels such as tea,cotton etc to different countries.

We also had to draw trade route to show where the products were imported from and exported from. Many of the products were transported from one place to another by ship, the main point of this project was to demonstrate which countries from Europe went to which part of the world to get thier raw materials for thier industrial revolution. Many countries went down to africa and conquered them for thier materials, others like britain n spain went to india and china south america.

When we started coloring the countries and the territory they conquered I was shocked to see so many countires from eurpoe spread all over the world to south america,north america,africa,asia. All in less than 20 years and for the purpose only to obtain slaves to do thier work and raw materials for their huge industrialization. What also outstanded me is that great countries would take advantage of their superior weapons and force people to give them the products they desierd and also trick them to give them what they want for example when british gave Chinese opium for tea, this was a trick to get the material they needed and end up leading to the opium wars.