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This document provides a study module, likely for an undergraduate course focusing on colonialism, imperialism, and their impact on various communities around the world. It details different perspectives of colonialism and their relevant theories.

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Module 9 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g8obsg 1. Macro Levels of looks at large-scale social processes, such as social sta- Social Analysis bility and change (interactions between social groups) 2. Local Levels of focusing on small-scale interactions between individuals...

Module 9 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g8obsg 1. Macro Levels of looks at large-scale social processes, such as social sta- Social Analysis bility and change (interactions between social groups) 2. Local Levels of focusing on small-scale interactions between individuals Social Analysis within a specific community or setting (interactions within a social group) 3. Imperialism when a country extends its power into other territories for economic or political gain Ex: US and its territories 4. Colonialism you send your people to be the government of subjugated people 5. 3 Waves of Euro- "Discovery" of the new world in the 18th and 19th centuries pean Colonial Ex- 1: Spain, Portugal pansion 2: United Provinces of the Netherlands, Great Britain, France 3: Imperialism: similar to that of former empires 6. Japan Colonial- In the 19th and 20th centuries Japan acquired several ter- ism ritories like Taiwan, Korea, and parts of Manchuria through military conquest 7. How to Prof- Direct Settlement of Overseas territory: penial colonies it from the Develop resource Extraction: mining, plantations growing Colonies cash crops Make use of Labor of Local Peoples: direct coercion & indirect means 8. Slave Trade Trans-Atlantic slave trade was the forced transportation of millions of Africans to the Americas for profit between 16th and 19th centuries 9. Conscription order of the community to work on a specific project for a specific duration of time 10. Colonial Strate- Direct Coercion: the slave trade, conscription gies of Access- Indirect Means: taxes, taking away people's land ing Labor 1/4 Module 9 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g8obsg 11. Local Impacts of Depopulation: disease, wars of conquest and subjugation, Colonialism genocide Dispossession of Land (military forces): land seizure- In- dian removal act of 1830, Trail of Tears 12. Disease, Depop- Disease and Depopulation led to populations becoming ulation and Impe- weak and vulnerable, making it easier for their territories rialism to be taken over by imperialists 13. American Indi- In North and South America and the Pacific Islands dis- ans and Disease eases like small pox, measles, and influenza attacked populations (i.e. Native Americans) and led to their depop- ulation by 90% either by death or relocation 14. Herero Revolt The Herero Revolt of 1904 was an uprising against Ger- man colonial rule in present-day Namibia, driven by land dispossession and mistreatment. It led to a brutal geno- cide by German forces, killing tens of thousands of Herero people. 15. Genocide the killing of a group of ethnic peoples Ex: The genocide of Native Americans in California 16. The "Frontier" European Manifest Destiny A cultural ordering of space (meanings get put on spaces) West Nature, Chaos compared to the East that had order 17. Reserves a federally-designated area of land for Native American Tribes to live on 18. Indian Removal a US law that authorized the President to negotiate Act of 1830 treaties with Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River, forcing them to relinquish their land in exchange for territory west of the river They relocated to what is now Oklahoma 19. Land Tenure: Pri- Privatized Land: land that was previously owned by the vatization of government but has been transferred to private ownership Corporate land: land owned by a corporation 2/4 Module 9 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g8obsg Land v. Corpo- rate Land 20. Commodification land that can be sold into a market 21. Alienable and In- alienable 22. The Mahele Transformed chiefdom into kingdom: successful Plantation owners looking into land for plantations 23. Rubber Produc- Under King Leopold II (1885-1908), the Belgian Congo ex- tion in the Bel- ploited rubber through forced labor. Villagers were coerced gian Congo to collect wild rubber, leading to widespread violence, mu- tilations, and millions of deaths, making it one of history's most brutal colonial enterprises. 24. Phosphate Min- Nauru's phosphate mining, starting in the early 20th cen- ing on Nauru tury, fueled its economy but led to severe environmental degradation, resource depletion, and dependence on im- ports after the mines were exhausted. 25. Anthropological Anthropological theory emerged alongside colonialism, Theory & often serving to justify imperial control, but later critiqued Colonialism colonial power dynamics and evolved to address cultural relativism and indigenous perspectives. 26. Scientific Racism Dehumanization: failure to qualify for human rights 27. Unilinear Social Societies stuck in process of unilinear evolution develop- Evolutionism ment "White man's burden" - other populations were kept from progressing along with white colonialists & were also prevented from progressing on their own 28. Social Darwinism these smaller, weaker populations were either forced out of their land, or "taken out" by white colonialists 29. 3/4 Module 9 Study online at https://quizlet.com/_g8obsg Power and Rep- a power relation over other people when conduct ethnog- resentations raphy. 4/4

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