Effects of Imperialism in the African Country
Short Term Effects:
1. Colonial government established harsh laws to benifit from Angola as much as they could. People had to work hard and pay heavy taxes and their living conditions went down.
Significance: In the short run, people's lives became bad and caused a decrease in population.
2. Cheap products from Portugal came into Angola. Angolan businesses were hammered hard and began to fail.
Significance: This directly weakened Angola's economy and made them become poorer.
3. Many western technologies and ideas came to Angola and somehow made their lives better.
Significance: The arrival of new things provoked the Angolans' curiosity towards the Weatern world and improved their level of civilization.
Significance: In the short run, people's lives became bad and caused a decrease in population.
2. Cheap products from Portugal came into Angola. Angolan businesses were hammered hard and began to fail.
Significance: This directly weakened Angola's economy and made them become poorer.
3. Many western technologies and ideas came to Angola and somehow made their lives better.
Significance: The arrival of new things provoked the Angolans' curiosity towards the Weatern world and improved their level of civilization.
Long Term Effects:
1. Harsh treatments of Africens made nationalism rose in Angola and revolts became bigger and bigger, and people began to unite and fight their colonizers.
Significance: It is one of the factors that made Angola gain independence, which undermined the imperialism in Angola.
2. During the colonial rule in Angola, the colonizers tried to prop up groups that represent their interests. As a result, many different political groups rose after Angola gained its independence and scrambled to control Angola.
Significance: This makes an anarchy to occur in Angola and slows down the development of the country because of instability.
3. The colonizers took the natural resources from Angola and sold their products there, thus destorying its local economy system.
Significance: This prevented the development of economy in Angola and also took away a lot of its wealth. As a result, there is now a big gap between Angola and Portugal, its former colonizer.
4. During its colonization, Portugal built railroads and post offices and other basic facilities in Angola, and some of them are still in use today.
Significance: This in some ways improves their lives and makes industrialization easier for them.
5. Portugal culture, including Christianism and Portugurese, spread into Angola through different ways.
Significance: Portugal culture has a big impact on Angola. Today in Angola, many people believe in Christianism and speak Portuguese.
Significance: It is one of the factors that made Angola gain independence, which undermined the imperialism in Angola.
2. During the colonial rule in Angola, the colonizers tried to prop up groups that represent their interests. As a result, many different political groups rose after Angola gained its independence and scrambled to control Angola.
Significance: This makes an anarchy to occur in Angola and slows down the development of the country because of instability.
3. The colonizers took the natural resources from Angola and sold their products there, thus destorying its local economy system.
Significance: This prevented the development of economy in Angola and also took away a lot of its wealth. As a result, there is now a big gap between Angola and Portugal, its former colonizer.
4. During its colonization, Portugal built railroads and post offices and other basic facilities in Angola, and some of them are still in use today.
Significance: This in some ways improves their lives and makes industrialization easier for them.
5. Portugal culture, including Christianism and Portugurese, spread into Angola through different ways.
Significance: Portugal culture has a big impact on Angola. Today in Angola, many people believe in Christianism and speak Portuguese.