Essays on Colonialism

Is the desire to do evil part of human nature, or does this desire stem from somewhere else? In the short story “The Black Cat” (1843), Edgar Allan Poe illustrates the difficulties that the narrator is experiencing through his personal perspective, which portrays him as...

When we studied United States history in school, we always are taught to think about the wars created by heroes in History books. However, the book ‘A people’s history of the United States,’ written by Howard Zinn, changed the way Americans think. The author wants...

After America’s discovery, most of Europe has started settling towards the coast, claiming anything that they could find. With insufficient discoveries of wealth, slavery and land grants became more prominent. During the 17th century, the transport and use of white indentured servants, natives, and African...

The use of slaves and indentured servants for heavy labor rapidly grew during the eighteenth century with the increased demand for cash crops such as tobacco and cotton, the exchanging of slaves through the middle passage, and the expansion of plantations throughout the colonies. Slaves...

Bacon’s Rebellion proved to be a turning point during the colonial United States because it was a sudden revolt from Indentured Servants and slaves. Although the rebellion failed, it caused panic among the elite Virginians and forced the elite to create countermeasures regarding slave revolts...

Introduction In the year 1857 in India, one of the most extraordinary indigenous uprisings against European empire occurred (Mantena, 2010). Over 130 000 native soldiers, known as the Sepoys of the Bengal Army, rebelled against their British commanders and consequently created a shift in the imperial...

For centuries, Christopher Columbus was has been celebrated as the brave explorer who discovered the new world in 1492. However, the gruesome details of the nature of Columbus’s voyage and his hand in the mass murder of indigenous people is left out of most textbooks,...

Every kid in elementary school is taught the story of the famous explorer Christopher Columbus who sailed across the ocean in 1492 and discovered America. Children are taught that he was a hero. Columbus even has a U.S. holiday dedicated to him that takes place...

Would someone who kills thousand, rapes many young girls, makes innocent people their slaves and takes others out of the own home be a hero? Christopher Columbus is most definitely a villain, would a hero really do all the terrible things he has done? He...

Introduction Nationalism is a bleeding edge advancement. From the earliest starting point of time people have been affixed to their neighborhood soil, to the shows of their kinfolk, at the set up local specialists; and before the completion of the eighteenth century that nationalism transformed...

Abstract By the first half of the 19th century, the East India Company had brought major portions of India under its control. One hundred years after the Battle of Plessey, anger against the unjust and unfair British Government took the form of a revolt that...

In the book Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali Mecca was a city of Saudi Arabia which was a holy spot where the Muslims yearly heavily assembled called the Hajj happens. It is trusted that a Muslim should take a visit at this heavenly...

During the 17th and 18th centuries, America began to develop more and more into its own country. The development was mainly caused by the impacts of International Trades. International Trades is the exchange of capital goods in general and services across other countries or territories....

The United States of America, the land of the free. Many people know this vast land for being made up of its fifty states, from Alaska to Wyoming, but how this land came to be is not as well known. Originally there were thirteen colonies,...

Beginning in the 15th century, many countries around the globe were in need of specific resources to prosper and create a highly-developed society. However, there were no forms of an exchange of goods during this time. This catastrophe led to a highly-valued method of transportation...

The ways European colonization impacted in the early modern period were the circulation of peoples, plants, animals, goods and diseases. The discovery of the new world opened doors to the Columbian exchange which shaped the modern world through the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution. Once...

In this essay, I will talk about the Lewis and Clark expedition and how it helped America. First, exploring what the land that they recently bought, and second, diplomacy with the Native Americans. On April 30, 1803 the country of France sold 828,000 square miles...

The Mali Empire is an empire well-known for its wealth and religious influence in the West Africa. The empire was established in 1235 Common era by King Sundiata Keita and began through the merging of smaller Malinnike kingdoms within Ghana and the upper Niger river...

History of Stamp Duty In any transaction that is negotiated, one of the key elements that forms a part of the negotiations is who would pay the government taxes and duties for the transaction, and this is especially true for transactions involving immovable property wherein...