The Colonial Period: The Colonization Of Africa And Asia

The Colonial Period consisted of European countries going to countries within the Eastern World and imperializing many countries within Africa and Asia. These European countries imperialized those countries to compete with fellow European countries, gain raw materials from the Eastern countries, and have access to a larger market. The legacies that the imperial world left was destruction of the culture of African and Asian countries, a rapid growth for the countries of the colonizers and weakened political, and economic state in the colonized countries. Politically, at the time, each European country was trying to prove that they were the strongest European country. They all rushed to Africa to claim countries (which ultimately resulted in the Berlin Conference). It was thought that more land would resemble more power, which exhibited the theory of mercantilism. The more territory an European country was able to colonize, the more powerful that country was and the richer the country was. According to this theory, countries (such as Germany, Italy, Portugal, France, and Great Britain) that colonized many Eastern countries were the strongest European countries. And as the strongest …show more content…
When the European rule was abolished in these underdeveloped countries, the countries became economically and politically weak once again. The colonized parts of the world were dependent on the countries that colonized them. They no longer had the resources needed to develop (because the European countries had taken most of them) and become a modern developed country like those of the Western World. In addition, the African and Asian countries no longer had the political organization and structure the European countries had provided them. Due to this broken system, the underdeveloped countries were unable to effective rule their own