The Role Of Imperialism In The 20th Century

Imperialism changed the world in many ways as we lunched into the 20th century. When talking about imperialism i mean the social change on people's behaviors and territory in the world. Often times people confuse it with the opening of more jobs and business and even though that was also a change but there was many more important things what happened such as the education that was happening. People become much more educated on the justice system and the division of labor. Imperialism also was the road to more sources of production meaning the world trade increased allowing countries to invest with one another. For countries to buy products they must sell resources and good to be shipped abroad.
Imperialism also had a big part in the economic
Simon Bolivar changed the social hierarchy, which reshaped the world socially after the imperialism. Simon Bolivar sent a letter to the Congress of Angostura talking about how South America did not belong to the natives. He said that the Spanish have no right to control the land because they are not Natives and have their own nation. The people did not fit into any category, and did not like the social hierarchy triangle. Simon Bolivar wrote, “As our role has always been strictly passive and political existence nil, we find that our quest for liberty is now even more difficult of accomplishment; for us, having been placed in a state lower than slavery...” (Bolivar). He said the conditions the people in South America lived in were worse than slavery due to them not having freedom and not to having control over their own land. Bolivar was fighting to make South American nations, places with people proud of who they are. This connects to imperialism because nationalism changed the cultural values and norms of the people. This change reshaped the world because Simon Bolivar’s challenge of the social hierarchy led to