User:Atcovi/AP European History/Expansion and Resistance


 * Putting one's nation above others has caused issues for us even till today
 * In the 1800s, China still attracted the Europeans for trade.
 * Opium Wars: Find new ports to trade for China, UK increasingly put their political ruling on China.
 * King Leopold imposed his rule on the Congo, Otto von Bismarck did not like Germans going out and suppressing others
 * Europeans gave the locals poor and outdated tools and used railroads to only benefit the Europeans and to get them from place to place.
 * Quinine - South American plant which explorers found it through the first wave of imperialism. The Dutch were able to farm it in Indonesia. Other scientific inventions found a way to extract it from a bark and used it as a way to cure malaria.
 * Diamonds and gold in Africa in the 1800s allowed the Europeans to invade and colonize the Africans. They forced the Africans to leave their farms and work in the mines and had to pay taxes in currency.
 * 1857: Rebellion in Hindustan
 * Colonial impression: Caribbean women aborted their children so they wouldn't be born into slavery.
 * Rabindranath Tagore
 * Social Darwinists: White people need to inflict colonialism in all other nations in order to keep them superior.
 * Berlin Conference of 1884-85.
 * Fashoda Incident of 1894.
 * Colonialism (extracting wealth from colonial nations) and racist views still are around today