Imperialism Project

This projected on imperialism was used to teach us how imperialism worked and as to why the countries were taken over by the parent country. This project not only taught us about color coding and how important it was to see how far Europe had reached for raw materials but also how many countries had been a part of this. The map we were working on, with our partners, consisted of us pasting items like Gold, Cotton, Silver and etc... Onto the maps and making arrows indicating from country to country as to what actions was going on and which country was going where.

The coloring portion of the project was interesting because we saw Europe go to places like Canada and many more places that I had not known they would go to. This also helped me learn that there are places in Africa I never heard of that Europe took over and it was all because they had really good natural resources. As the picture in this post indicates almost all of Africa was taken over by countries in Europe. France and Britain were two of the biggest players in this Imperialism game as you can see from the picture. Another important thing I also learned from this project that not displayed in the picture is that slaves were also transported around from the Eastern U.S. and Africa during this time. There were several trades routes that we needed to draw. The one I remember was from Britain to China that one, as I learned later on, led to the Opium wars.