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Alyssa Barranti  This chapter covers the impact of colonization over two centuries. Action of the Europeans led to Asia's tension with western countries. Many countries are shaped the way they are because of these actions. It covers the great depression and how bank closures resulted in a high rise of unemployment. During this war, america was producing more goods than it could sell and colonies were hit hard as goods were not causing the value of the exports to decrease. In South America, military take overs occurred often to free themselves from foreign interest. The US relied on the new deal to get them out of the depression and people were given jobs to work in the public projects. Along with this, social security was created as well as welfare programs to help the rising poor population. However, this new deal was not successful and the second world war was what ended up helping them get out of the depression. Along with this chapter, it covers many different aspects of re...

Chapter 18 covers colonial encounters in Asia and Africa. The Industrial revolution gave rise to many economic needs which were solved abroad. Many new materials and agricultural products were created during this time. This new industrialized society led to large distributions of wealth. Those of influence became known for great power. As europe advanced, race and culture changed. Charles Darwin was the man to start the social darwinism movement which became known as the destruction of unfitted races. Women during this time were expected to feed the family, and allocated their own fields for this purpose.  Because of the low wages men experienced woman would supply them with food in the cities to make up for it. Colonial development served for better or worse to help along the immigration of Asian and African economies. India became an independent country after two centuries of colonial rule and was still the worlds poorest developing country. Christianity during this time was wid...