During the 1700s and 1900s Europeans were expanding all around the world. Some counties had a lust for exploration while others lusted for colonization and larger markets. The force behind European expansion during this time was, Europe’s early commercial revolution. This expansion lead to new and unknown goods being brought into the European markets. Expansion lead Europe to acquire a global empire that resulted in a world defined by a transcultural phenomena. The world’s reaction to this expansion differentiates reactions based on, exploration, colonization and trade markets.
As Europeans expanded their empires and began to explore the world, they encounter many diverse civilizations. The Portuguese began to make voyages to India, this revitalized …show more content…
After exploring in Africa in the 18th century, Europeans’ lust for exploration turned into a lust for expansion. This European lust for expansion would carry over into the 19th century. “The colonial era in India began in 1502, when the Portuguese Empire established the first European trading centre at Kollam, Kerala” The Dutch would begin to colonized India in the 1600s, but ruling power exchange between, the Danish, French, Portuguese and British until the mid 1900s. Europeans began to colonized India as a trade post, to make trading easier between Europe and Asia. In the late 1700s the British began to colonized Australia and New Zealand. In 1788 England established a penal colony in Australia, to banish convicts out of England. Unlike other European colonies that were being built at this time, in Australia they use convict laborers instead of natives(slaves). In 1840 New Zealand would be claimed as a British colony. The French in the 1850s began to colonized in South East Asia. A colony that the French colonized is Vietnam, there was an “upsurge of French capitalism, which generated the need for overseas markets and the desire for a larger French share of the Asian territories conquered by the West.” In Vietnam the French implemented a Western-style government on their colonial territories and exploited them economically. The French ran Vietnam until the 1954, when …show more content…
European merchants would set up trade posts on all corners of the world, to keep their markets growing . During this time the biggest trade market for Europeans were slave trading.This new market of trading became increasingly popular and profitable. In the late 1600s most European countries would go to Africa and set up slave trading post. “In 1662 the British established headquarters on the Gold Coast a few miles east of Elmina, giving competition to the Dutch in that region.” The British and the Dutch were the biggest competitors in slave trading. By the 1700s the French, Swedes and Germans would drop out of the slave trading wars, and the Danes’ slave trading would decrease. During this time the politics behind slave trading heated up between the British and the French, which lead them to go to war with each other. Eventually they found common ground, this was done by the Treaty of Utrecht. This treaty lead to agreement of slave trade boundaries for each colony. This profitable market for Europeans was not welcomed by many indigenous people of Africa. “The slave taking, for export or domestic use, was enough to create a widespread sense of insecurity in Africa. Communities along the Atlantic coast were on constant watch against intruding slave traders sneaking into their village.” This can be understood as, that these African hated European expansionism at this time. The British
As Europeans expanded their empires and began to explore the world, they encounter many diverse civilizations. The Portuguese began to make voyages to India, this revitalized …show more content…
After exploring in Africa in the 18th century, Europeans’ lust for exploration turned into a lust for expansion. This European lust for expansion would carry over into the 19th century. “The colonial era in India began in 1502, when the Portuguese Empire established the first European trading centre at Kollam, Kerala” The Dutch would begin to colonized India in the 1600s, but ruling power exchange between, the Danish, French, Portuguese and British until the mid 1900s. Europeans began to colonized India as a trade post, to make trading easier between Europe and Asia. In the late 1700s the British began to colonized Australia and New Zealand. In 1788 England established a penal colony in Australia, to banish convicts out of England. Unlike other European colonies that were being built at this time, in Australia they use convict laborers instead of natives(slaves). In 1840 New Zealand would be claimed as a British colony. The French in the 1850s began to colonized in South East Asia. A colony that the French colonized is Vietnam, there was an “upsurge of French capitalism, which generated the need for overseas markets and the desire for a larger French share of the Asian territories conquered by the West.” In Vietnam the French implemented a Western-style government on their colonial territories and exploited them economically. The French ran Vietnam until the 1954, when …show more content…
European merchants would set up trade posts on all corners of the world, to keep their markets growing . During this time the biggest trade market for Europeans were slave trading.This new market of trading became increasingly popular and profitable. In the late 1600s most European countries would go to Africa and set up slave trading post. “In 1662 the British established headquarters on the Gold Coast a few miles east of Elmina, giving competition to the Dutch in that region.” The British and the Dutch were the biggest competitors in slave trading. By the 1700s the French, Swedes and Germans would drop out of the slave trading wars, and the Danes’ slave trading would decrease. During this time the politics behind slave trading heated up between the British and the French, which lead them to go to war with each other. Eventually they found common ground, this was done by the Treaty of Utrecht. This treaty lead to agreement of slave trade boundaries for each colony. This profitable market for Europeans was not welcomed by many indigenous people of Africa. “The slave taking, for export or domestic use, was enough to create a widespread sense of insecurity in Africa. Communities along the Atlantic coast were on constant watch against intruding slave traders sneaking into their village.” This can be understood as, that these African hated European expansionism at this time. The British