Ch 16-18: Western Expansion & Globalization

Atlantic Revolutions, Global Echoes:

The Atlantic Revolution is a time that was highly influential, with the reflection of changes for the years to come afterward. Even though they were in many countries, for different reasons, they were all under the influence of one another. The American Revolution had the outcome of renewed commitment with Great Britain to look closely at the colonies and take more taxes from them, filling their empty moneyboxes, to help the French fight. 

Revolutions of Industrialization:

The Industrial Revolution was one of the most significant elements of Europe's modern transformation, from 1750 to 1900. From the scientific revolution to the transformation of societies, it had to be the most fundamental revolution ever. Acceleration of technology was leading the huge increase in goods being outputted. New sources were being used during this period of time, of new energy sources. Engines, steam and petroleum, were developing to being used to cut out labor forces, spreading from the textile industry to other production sources. Later it was on the rise from spreading to Western Europe, North America, Russia, and Japan. Britain was the most commercialized country to the European group, having enclosure movements and producing fuel with a number of agricultural innovations. 

Colonial Encounters in Asia, Africa, and Oceania:

The British, French, Germans, Italians, Belgians, Portuguese, Russians, and Americans all had colonies. The actions and reactions of the policies shaped the people and their experience. The Industrial Revolution fueled a lot of Europe's expansion, demanding raw materials and agricultural products, to sell in their markets. As the second wave of the European conquest came around, colonies were occurring in different ways, where gather-hunter and agricultural had incorporated into complex civilizations for the first time. Looking at Asia; India and Indonesia were growing ties with the European trading firms, and onto Oceania's influence of North America was colonized Australia and New Zealand. Under the European rule the new colonial empires, race was an important point in separating rulers from the ruled; education was limited, where racism was pronounced in areas with a big number of European settlers. Changing the daily lives of the people of the colony states, in India the case system was idealized, tribes were identified in Africa, along with gender. The way of working had the world's economy increasing of raw materials from Asia and Africa. The worst abuse apart of forced labor was in Congo, where many colonial states were demanding unpaid labor and there was widespread starvation, because of Leopold II's reign of terror killing many. Belgium had stepped into taking control of the Congo to stop abuses.