Chapter 20: Colonial Encounters

The following section talks about the colonies and the colonial experience.  The Europeans used military force in order to conquer since Europe had a flourish of natural resources like their creations of guns and weapons.  To become a colony you had to conquer another territory, the Europeans had a great advantage due to their resources.  Obviously when Europe took over other colonies, the citizens began to rebel towards their new leader, it is only natural.  No one like a power hungry colony, so of course there is going to be conflict.  Not to mention the way Europeans treated their new colonies, for instance workers worked with no payment at all by force.  Plus money and land were taken form the citizens, like in the Netherlands in the East Indies where peasants had to give up 20% of their land in order to pay for taxes.  Also this is the first time that we are introduced to child labor, who were treated as adults when it came to work.  It was bad since children were not as strong as adults which resulted in more deaths and accidents at work than adults.