Introduction to the Imperialism Blog

This Blog is focused on Chapter 25 of A History of Western Society. This chapter is entitled "The West and the World". This chapter looks at the last era of aggressive expansion by the western powers where colonization will occur across the previously untouched countries of China and Japan, and the continent of Africa.

Hopefully this blog will shed some light onto the ideas of Imperialism and how those ideas affected the course of history.

How did the Age of Imperialism affect history then?

To give the shortened version, several western powers expanded, including Britain, Germany, and France, into the territories of Africa and opened up trade with China and Japan. Political tensions would increase due to the massive division of land in Africa between the great powers. The Age of Imperialism lasted from 1815-1914, not coincidentally ending at the same time that World War I started. Imperialism was a direct consequence of Industrialization, which led to the economic problems that many countries sought to remedy with Imperialism.


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