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The impact of 19th century European colonialism on the Third World

The impact of 19th century European colonialism on the Third World

Introduction

Colonialism is practice or policy of acquiring partial or full control over the other country politically, engaging it with colonizers, and using it economically. In the past, this has over and over again concerned subjugating or killing the native people. With the expansion of Roman as well as Hellenic technology and culture through the Roman kingdom, the Enlightenment and the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries in addition to Industrial uprising of the 18th and 19th centuries, nearly all of the humankind has at a number of points been occupied by the European country (Aghalino, 2000, p. 23). The nearly all prominent colonial supremacies were Rome, Britain, Greece, Spain, France, Portugal, the Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands, whose joint empires sheltered at several times the whole of the Central, North, South America, Australia, Africa, much more of Indonesia, and those countries which are lying in Levant, a lot of the Indian subcontinent with nearly all of those countries which are lying amid. In short, it may be the majority of this world. It is exciting to note down that the entire of such colonial authorities have a great coastline. In the past, the arrangements of new territories in addition to the continuation of prosperity and trade have based heavily on the naval power (Bawa, 1992, pp. 477-488).

The main impacts of European colonialism are the related to the forests and land, through cash cropping and deforestation along with mining and extraction through alterations to the economic systems and landscape these are considered as ecological impacts. These also include the introduction of human as well as animal diseases by the colonial settlers. On the other hand it also comprises of some of the political impacts related to the destruction of limited institutions, displacement of local inhabitants, repressive and coercive state rule, and development of false national boundaries (Boyd, 1979, pp. 1-14).

This essay exploits specific 3rd world examples to outlines the central impacts of 19th century colonialism, at what time colonial powers achieved their peak position. It centres on European colonialism in the Africa as well as India.

Discussion

Colonialism is considered as a system where a state declares sovereignty over region and populace exterior to its own system of rule that believes the right of a people to inflict their willpower upon the other one. All through the 19th and 20th centuries, powerful and rich states, including European countries and Britain, owned the 3rd world colonies. The 'Third world' actually referred to the countries which did not relates to the industrialized and democratic countries from the West or state-socialist, Soviet Bloc and industrializing countries (the 2nd World) (Bryant, 1997, pp. 1-15).

All through the 19th century, the revolution of industries gave assured countries in the Western Europe a boost to the economic power. France, Italy, Germany, and Britain came out as industrialized supremacy, with high productions as well as high ...