Sunday, March 16, 2014

Documents in Chapter 18

As I was reading the documents in chapter 18, they all mostly seemed to be in favor of the Europeans except for document 18.4. This image stood out to me more than the others because it depicted a  realistic image of what was going on to the people being taken over in the Imperialist fashion. Among those involved in the second wave of European conquests there was Britain and France, like in the picture standing over many skeletons and even though they were not in such perfect agreement, they would not have time to fight each other since they were too busy conquering and killing natives of places like Denshway or Morocco. Document 18.5 also stood out to me since at the time, most of Africa was taken over by Europeans, but Ethiopians remained strong together under their emperor. Sadly, the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik also used his power to join the scramble for African land and used brutal force.

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