Tuesday, March 31, 2020

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. 

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