Of course out of every action we make there is always going to be some form of consequence. The negative mostly came out of the people who were conquered. Mostly because of how weak their country was the dominating countries would take advantage of that and conquer them. A major negative situation that occurred was slavery. The people put into the slave trade did not have a choice and that really blew for them.
Now for the people who dominated land, this was not a problem to them. They did not care that these people were actual humans, nor did they care that they had rights. Because the dominating lands were successful at conquering the land, they had nothing bad occurring for them.
And that is probably the saddest part, the fact that the conquerors did not realize how big pains in the heads they were to the conquered people.
Slavery predates the era of new imperialism. In fact, the presence of Euopeans often ended slavery in many places, although the conditions of work in places like the Congo were certainly similar to slavery.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'm not sure it's true to say there were no negatives for conquerors, or the nations that Europeans came from were not affected.