Western Civilization II / Unit 13 WC2 1201 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The New Imperialism: Eighty Percent of the Globe, and a Perfect Storm
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The idea
Before nineteen fourteen European powers controlled over eighty percent of the globe, the anchor says. Three unprecedented things made it possible at once: a monopoly on industrial technology, medicine that let Europeans survive the tropics, and an ideology of race that called conquest a duty.
In practice
A perfect storm, in the anchor's phrase.
Where people slip
The percentages are the anchor's.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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