Usman Aliyu
Mr. Ramon Villar
G10 Integrated Humanities: History
20 November 2017
Essay on Imperialism
“Imperialism is the act of a bigger (stronger nation) takes full control over a smaller (weaker nation). It dominates in aspects such as political, social, economical aspect of the country (What is Imperialism, 2017)”. The term imperialism came from the Latin verb "imperare", it means 'to command' and from the Roman "imperium" (expansion). As early 1830, Europeans started imperialism in countries in multiple continents. Imperialism in these countries brought only devastation and division throughout the nations. These actions pioneered the exploitation of resources, loss of lives due to slavery or military reasons and native culture condemned …show more content…
The Europeans colonized countries from different continents. One of the countries that experienced Imperialism was Morocco. The Moroccans were in the Barbary Coast, which consists of Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Morocco today. In 1900, France and Italy had a secret agreement on owning these two countries, Libya and Morocco. The Spanish Protectorate had control of the Northern part of Morocco (History of Morocco, par. 8). When the French arrived in Morocco, the Moroccan’s economy wasn’t stable. Morocco's natural resources include phosphate, zinc, iron ore, manganese, salt, and fish (Morocco, CIA, par. 13). For example, Spain took control of Morocco's iron mines because it controlled the Rif Mountain, northern Morocco (Morocco: The Spanish Zone, Encyclopedia Britannica Online par. …show more content…
The Europeans found those cultures uncivilized and abnormal and should be condemned. The colonial masters were trying to bring their ways of life to the colonies’ society because Europeans believed only their ways of living was right. In the poem Anvil and the Hammer, Kofi Awoonor famous Ghanaian poet, uses metaphors and symbolism to show what happened to African culture during the colonization period. “Caught between the anvil and the hammer” (Anvil and the hammer line 1), here the poet uses the anvil as a metaphor for the initial traditions and the hammer as the foreign culture which is used to forge up a new
Mr. Ramon Villar
G10 Integrated Humanities: History
20 November 2017
Essay on Imperialism
“Imperialism is the act of a bigger (stronger nation) takes full control over a smaller (weaker nation). It dominates in aspects such as political, social, economical aspect of the country (What is Imperialism, 2017)”. The term imperialism came from the Latin verb "imperare", it means 'to command' and from the Roman "imperium" (expansion). As early 1830, Europeans started imperialism in countries in multiple continents. Imperialism in these countries brought only devastation and division throughout the nations. These actions pioneered the exploitation of resources, loss of lives due to slavery or military reasons and native culture condemned …show more content…
The Europeans colonized countries from different continents. One of the countries that experienced Imperialism was Morocco. The Moroccans were in the Barbary Coast, which consists of Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Morocco today. In 1900, France and Italy had a secret agreement on owning these two countries, Libya and Morocco. The Spanish Protectorate had control of the Northern part of Morocco (History of Morocco, par. 8). When the French arrived in Morocco, the Moroccan’s economy wasn’t stable. Morocco's natural resources include phosphate, zinc, iron ore, manganese, salt, and fish (Morocco, CIA, par. 13). For example, Spain took control of Morocco's iron mines because it controlled the Rif Mountain, northern Morocco (Morocco: The Spanish Zone, Encyclopedia Britannica Online par. …show more content…
The Europeans found those cultures uncivilized and abnormal and should be condemned. The colonial masters were trying to bring their ways of life to the colonies’ society because Europeans believed only their ways of living was right. In the poem Anvil and the Hammer, Kofi Awoonor famous Ghanaian poet, uses metaphors and symbolism to show what happened to African culture during the colonization period. “Caught between the anvil and the hammer” (Anvil and the hammer line 1), here the poet uses the anvil as a metaphor for the initial traditions and the hammer as the foreign culture which is used to forge up a new