The Age of Exploration and the Age of Imperialism influenced colonialism by Europeans. However, the periods of 1450-1760 and 1850-1914 were each characterized differently by the motivations and influences in Europe at the time. The main economic and social motive of Europe in the period 1450-1760 was the advancement of mercantilism and competition for resources and land against other European countries. They also wanted to spread Christianity to the Americas. In the period 1850-1914 they shifted
The medical mission has its roots in 1838 in Canton, China, when British, American and Chinese missionaries, physicians and businessman created the 'China Medical Missionary Society.' (IAMS 1992) . Medical missions portray the first attempts of the world humanitarianism which, undeniably, triggered later on global health practices. One of the most significant missionary doctors was Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) whose figure took various status both as an object of commemoration and as a global
diseases. However, the African labourers were used to the tropical climate and resistant to tropical diseases. Consequently, most Africans sold into slavery were destined to work on plantations in the Caribbean and the Americas, where huge areas of the American continent had been colonized by European nations. Products such as sugar or tobacco would be produced
and armed with steel, the Europeans set off on a mission of imperialism and expansion. Europeans used diseases to bring native peoples to their knees, and used religion as a tool for punishment and killing. The Spanish, English, and others managed to plow through the Native Americans and Africans to get to profit. Utilizing fear and religion as weapons, the Europeans completely subjugated the political, environmental, economic, and cultural aspects of the New World. The Europeans left no people or
relationship with India, the British, who had come as traders and had become rulers and administrators, had influenced the economic and political systems of the country. Their impact on the cultural and social life of India was, however, gradual. Till 1813, they followed a policy of non-interference in the social and cultural life of the Indians. Yet, changes were taking place in these fields (the social life of Indians). These changes related to education, the condition of women, the caste system and various
The year 1492 marks one of the most momentous events that irrevocably changed the course of world history. It was then that Christopher Columbus first made contact with the New World at a site he named San Salvador, an island of present-day Bahamas. Though initially an accidental encounter, this was the beginning of the systemic European contact with and colonization of the Caribbean and the Americas, an encounter that continues to have boundless impact on all world nations. During his lifetime as
CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION “History has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of
Africa in exchange for the slaves. Another impact was that the trade disrupted African inter-society relations, creating additional conflicts, wars and ethnic tensions. Slavery may have also contributed to underdevelopment in Caribbean and Latin American LDCs by introducing a pattern of labor that resulted in elites focusing on export crops and resisting the introduction of new technologies that threatened their positions. Some analysts doubt that the slave trade had a significant impact on underdevelopment