online module #2 - chapter 18 - 3 questions

3. What contributed to changing European views of Asians and Africans in the 19thcentury?

What contributed to changing European views of Asian and Africans in the 19th century was that Europeans religion which made them believe that they were superior to Africans and Asians, what also contributed was the belives of the Chinese toward African and Asian people and in the 19th century they decided to use their science as evidence to support their racial references (racism). which resulted in making a chart with the whites on the top and African and Asians as the "less developed" at the bottom.

11. How did cash-crop agriculture transform the lives of colonized peoples?

Cash-Crop agriculture transformed the lives of colonized people by making West Africa the world's leading supplier of cocoa, making chocolate, people started farming their own land with family labor, labor shortages brought migrants from the drier interior parts and under the circumstances, the population boomed.

12. What kinds of wage labor were available in the colonies? Why might people take part in it? How did doing so change their lives?

The kind of wage labor that was available in the colonies were mines. Many Asians took part in it because it drew many millions of impoverished. This changes their lives because working in mines had appalling living conditions, disease, and accidents that had high death rates. 

Online Module #1 - Industrial Rev - Chapter 17 - 3 questions

4) How did the Industrial Revolution transform British society?

The Industrial Revolution transformed the British Society by "[destroying] their old ways of living and left them free to discover or make for themselves new ones"(Eric Hobsbawm, 746).  Britain's political life welcomed people with technical skill without caring about what religion they believed in and encouraged their belief in observations, experiments, and precise experiments. And they had a ready supply of coal and iron ore. This all transformed British society to become the first industrial society.

12) What did humankind gain from the Industrial Revolution, and what did it lose?

Humankind gained knowledge of the outside world around them. Humankind gained scientific facts, rights, objects, and ideas. Some examples of what humankind gained were the different food and items that were traded around the world, pollution, illnesses, and medicine.
5) How did Britain's middle classes change during the 19th century?

 Britain's middle classes increased during the 19th century because the majority of the population during this time were not aristocrats nor middle class. Young women and girls from laboring classes were married into industrial work or found jobs as domestic events for upper to middle-class families. Inside the homes, women started to earn money in their jobs and continued their domestic and child responsibilities.  The lives of laboring classes were shaped primarily by the working conditions that the industrial era brought them.