Write a short note to explain the effects of the following:
The coming of rinderpest to Africa.
The coming of rinderpest to Africa:
(i) Entering Africa in the East, rinderpest moved West ‘like a forest fire’, streached around Africa’s Atlantic coast in 1892. Cape (Africa’s southernmost tip) was also infested by that lethal disease just after five years. Along the way, rinderpest killed 90 per cent of the total cattle.
(iii) The loss of cattle made African unemployed and starving. Planters, mine owners and colonial governments now successfully monopolised what scarce cattle resources remained, to strenghten their power and to force Africans into labour market.
(iii)Control over the scarce resource of cattle enabled European colonisers to conquer and subdue Africa.
The death of men of working-age in Europe because of the world war.
Explain how the global transfer of disease in the pre-modern world helped in the colonisation of the Americas.
Give two examples of different types of global exchanges which took place before the seventeenth century, choosing one example from Asia and one from the Americas.
Write a short note to explain the effects of the following:
The British government’s decision to abolish the Corn Laws.
