week #6
The pictures in Chapter 18 are very descriptive of what was going on in Asia and Africa.
. pg 882- It shows England as this big octopus using its long legs to show how the country had a connection to differen countries. It shows the great power and influence that they had. having a piece of each of the countries gave England a higher status a powerful country,
pg 887-it is a map of South Africa. You can see very few areas that were independent African states. majority of South Africa was owned by different European countries. it looks like a puzzle that was put together with different shape pieces. It also shows the unhappiness that happen around the 1900's. Africa was used for the people and things that could be cultivate there.
pg 894-image shows the brutality the Congo people had to endure if they didn't make enough rubber. King Leopold II of Belgium owned the land. It was very dictatorship to the people who lived there. He would enslave the people to make rubber which was a hot commodity back home for bicycles. He treated the people as less than nothing (savages) If they didn't get the minimum amount of rubber, a limb would be chopped off. There lives would live around to getting the rubber so that could eat and survive. This picture was hard to see. The life they had to live because of someone's greed. Power is evil.
pg. 903-The king, his son,and a some students are dress with western civilizations clothes. Looking the part and learn the part was something to be seen as a step up from being a slave. It was seen as a way of having power and not having to work in the fields. It gave them a better future and their family also.
. pg 882- It shows England as this big octopus using its long legs to show how the country had a connection to differen countries. It shows the great power and influence that they had. having a piece of each of the countries gave England a higher status a powerful country,
pg 887-it is a map of South Africa. You can see very few areas that were independent African states. majority of South Africa was owned by different European countries. it looks like a puzzle that was put together with different shape pieces. It also shows the unhappiness that happen around the 1900's. Africa was used for the people and things that could be cultivate there.
pg 894-image shows the brutality the Congo people had to endure if they didn't make enough rubber. King Leopold II of Belgium owned the land. It was very dictatorship to the people who lived there. He would enslave the people to make rubber which was a hot commodity back home for bicycles. He treated the people as less than nothing (savages) If they didn't get the minimum amount of rubber, a limb would be chopped off. There lives would live around to getting the rubber so that could eat and survive. This picture was hard to see. The life they had to live because of someone's greed. Power is evil.
pg. 903-The king, his son,and a some students are dress with western civilizations clothes. Looking the part and learn the part was something to be seen as a step up from being a slave. It was seen as a way of having power and not having to work in the fields. It gave them a better future and their family also.
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