How Did The Europeans Influence The American People In Kenya

In the Mid-1800s the Europeans Imperialised Africa for three main reasons. Those reasons being Cultural, Political, and Economic. The Europeans were encouraged by all the resources, and a way to find a peaceful way to divide Africa up. What motive did the Europeans have about taking over Africa? The best motive for the Europeans was economic because they needed the natural resources for the benefits.

During the 1800s, Europeans had a great desire to take over the colonization of Africa completely. This imperialism changed the way the African people lived, entirely. All ways of life, political organizations, and social structures were adjusted due to the large effects the Europeans had on the countries. However, one of the biggest changes was the European-dominated hierarchies and the arrival of Christianity, and Western ideals spread throughout Africa. However, the primary driving force behind European imperialism in Africa is the relentless pursuit of Africa’s abundance of raw materials to share among their countries.

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With the dawn of the sixteenth century, there came together in Europe both the motivation and the means to explore and colonize territory across the sea. New developments in Europe, such as the Protestant Reformation and the changing political landscape, contributed to the drive towards exploration and colonization. Moreover, the advancement and invention of technology provided Europeans with the ability to make and defend their claims on American land.

The Europeans thought it was their burden as white men to bring religion and God to whom they thought were uncivilized people (Spielvogel and McTighe 227) . When coming to Africa the Europeans spread the word of God through missionaries and bible teachings and converted a lot of the Africans to Christianity. As explained through an African proverb, “When the whites came to our country we had the land and they had the Bible, now we have the Bible and they have the land” (Document 3). To justify taking African religion the Europeans said it was their job as white men to give the Africans God so they can experience what comes with it. Bringing new beliefs to the Africans it replaced the other religious ideas and in turn lost much of the culture the Africans held. Incoming Europeans were more concerned with protecting their traditions and culture and spreading it to this new region rather than respecting the Africans and their existing traditional culture. While the Europeans worked to conserve their culture, religions and traditions they were looking to gain economic stability from Africa to help them to become more powerful and overall have good economic

Historically, countries have been imperializing since the 15th century to facilitate trading routes to other nations. Powerfully dominant countries, such as Great Britain and France, established colonies in Africa, India, and the Americas. Initial colonial expeditions gave these imperialistic countries a sense of nationalism, as they desired to accumulate wealth by annexing more countries. However, to understand the most significant factor that enabled the rapid establishment of European colonial empires in Africa and Asia in the late 1800s, the historical context of the Agricultural Revolution must be discussed. Around the 18th century, Britain experienced an agricultural revolution, where new crop rotations/techniques, enclosure acts, and

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In the late 1800’s, Europeans began a new era as they expanded overseas to colonize Africa. Beginning in the 1500’s, European nations traded for slaves, gold, and ivory throughout Africa’s west coast. During the 1880’s, multiple countries, including Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, and Italy, competed for colonies all throughout the continent. Britain and France managed to hold the most territory within Africa.

The Ku Klux Klan originated in the South and spread across the nation; during the early twentieth century, the KKK had approximately four million members throughout the country. Their members occupied many political influences in some states such as Oregon, Indiana, and Colorado. In the summer of 1868, Klan achieved part of their goal which was to defeat Southern Blacks; but didn’t succeed that well in carrying out their social aim during the reconstruction era, however; they later spread throughout Georgia. Then again, a Georgia Republican organizer was killed on March 31st, 1868; and because of his death, KKK organized terrorist crime became noticeable; to the extent that their violent actions spread across Georgia’s Black Belt, and the state

The British colonization of Kenya destroyed the culture and economy of the native people, but it established a democratic government and left Kenya a more modernized country.[1] During the 1880’s through 1914, the start of WWI, was an age of imperialism. One place that felt victim to this imperialism was Africa. At this time Africa was a wholly unmodernized continent. The reason the Europeans went after Africa was the introduction of the idea of social Darwinism and the “white man’s burden”. Social Darwinism is the belief that only the strongest and the most cunning can make it to the top of the social ladder, and it was the White Man’s Burden to step in for these undeveloped countries

A theme in the book Animal Farm, written by George Orwell is the theme loyalty. Loyalty towards an enemy is a theme in the book Animal Farm due to the animals being loyal to an enemy named Napoleon. A question that is related to the theme of this book is why were the animals loyal to Napoleon? They were loyal because Napoleon promised things to them and took advantage of them knowing that the animals had weaknesses. Napoleon was their leader, and they followed his orders no matter what the conditions were. When the windmill blew down, Napoleon convinced the animals that Snowball had done it and convinced them to re-build it. The reason why Napoleon was in so much power was due to the fact he had more people around him to support what he said. Also that he was somewhat intimidating to the other animals. Napoleon influenced the animals, in many ways due to his evilness.

Culture and Religions were commonly pressed into the colonists to adopt their religions of Christianity. The younger colonists took into Western culture and denied their own. These actions will result in the loss of heritage and diverse races in the African communities (Gaynor & Esler, 2007 p.292). The colonists will even sell their neighboring tribes just so they can defend themselves with the money they gained. This also contributed to the loss of many African races, culture, and heritage. The colonists were unsure of how to exactly respond since they believed the European powers were extremely powerful so they could not do much but submit or try and adapt.

The history of imperialism in Europe is vast, but none more so than the conquering of Africa from military involvement to resources in a country to the use of missionaries to gain trust with natives. The Europeans used military force to conquer land for the resources that could not be obtained in their country. The military was used to enslave the natives to mine the resources, such as gold, diamonds, rubber, and ivory, for the rich at home when the missionaries attempts to gain trust. The missionaries came claiming to want to teach them, but instead they destroyed the unique culture of the area. A combination of these caused an uproar from the natives and the end of imperialism in the area. The history of these also affects how life

Though Kenya’s impoverished and underdeveloped conditions were certainly not highlighted in the film, I believe it is important to observe. These conditions are best displayed by the state of the primary school. In the film, students were forced to sit 5 students to a desk and were crammed into a tiny room. Moreover, the Kenyans were highly grateful for the concept of free education. This highly contrasts the state of American schools, which are typically well funded. Americans are used to the concept of free education, so much so, that people now desire free higher education. I believe this theme is important to note because it is the key difference between the Kenyan and American