8 Individuals and Societies: Age of Empires

Task Sheet

Choose your Country

Africa:

• Morocco, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo), Namibia, South Africa

Asia:

• Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines

South & Central America

• Brazil, Argentina, Mexico

Ready to Find Information?

Try different search strategies:

• For example: legacy French Imperialism Vietnam
• For example: French empire or French imperialism
• Try searching the commodity that the imperial power was looking for: rubber, oil, diamonds, etc.
• For primary sources, try "French imperialism" "primary sources" (in a google search only; in a database you will have to be very specific and search by specific name or event).

1) Explore the reasons behind imperialism and colonization of your chosen empire.

Consider:

• economic motives
• political ambitions
• desire for resources and markets

2. Identify the territories and colonized regions of your chosen empire

• Find maps that show your country's territory before and after colonization
• What do you notice?

3. Discuss the effects of imperialism and colonization on the region.

Which of these consequences occurred? How so?

• social
• cultural
• economic
• political

Keep in mind how these factors had an impact

• global inequality
• cultural assimilation
• geopolitical conflicts

Chat with Flint about any information you don't understand.

Ask questions until you are able to explain the ideas on your own!