What was the global impact of imperialism and what is the legacy?

Answer 1

Okay, you have three open imperialism questions that haven't really been answered yet, so I'll give them a try. There will certainly be some overlap, but I'll answer them separately.

To get the global impact, we should compare the world before and after the Age of Imperialism. Imperialism got going in the eighteenth century, but flowered in the nineteenth, then came crashing down in the twentieth.

It must have been an outgrowth of the Age of Discovery, and the Industrial Revolution; colonies were territories that had been "discovered" by the Europeans, and the European (and other) imperialists were able to rule by virtue of their superior technology.

(We should note that, besides the traditional European powers, the "imperialists club" included Russia, the United States, and Japan.)

Early imperialism might be traced back to the Portuguese going to India, Malaya, the East Indies, and Brazil in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; to Spain, England, and France going to the Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but those were outcomes of the Age of Discovery. More commonly, we associate imperialism with the nineteenth century Scramble for Africa, European incursions into Southeast Asia, Russian expansion to the Pacific, the British Empire, American expansion to the Pacific and beyond (Hawaii and the Philippines), and the "spheres of influence" in China by Germany, Britain, France, Russia, Japan, and the United States.

Imperialism certainly made the world a smaller place. It introduced European culture everywhere. It carved up the world among the Great Powers. It exploited colonies everywhere. And it fostered a competition among these powers that ultimately led to World War I.

By introducing western values and technology, many colonial cultures became more advanced in their own use of technology, and they began to think in terms of nations rather than tribes. Because of imperialism, many colonial subjects moved to Europe, where their descendants live today.

[Sorry for stringing this out ... have had very little time to do this in the last couple of days ...]

Many of the newer countries of the world were formed from the collapse of imperialism beginning after World War I. These include most nations in South and Southeast Asia, almost all of Africa, the Central Asian Republics, and the Pacific Islands.

The problem with many of these nations -- a problem stemming directly from imperial policies -- is that governments are either weak, or they're headed by strong-man rulers. Since colonies were run by the imperialists, the colonists had no tradition of home rule. To be sure, there were differences here between British practices in India, for example, and French practices in Indochina, but I'd say that governmental weakness in newly-emerging nations is an important legacy of the Imperial system.

Answer 2

disaster and flood ,,.......mass terror legacy