Ehssan Chowdhury

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GSG101 Section : 3

Video review on "Global History: The Growth of Global

System"
There are 8 videos provided in the assignment to review which I scrupulously watched and
come out with following overview:

The world we live in today is quite special in the sense that we're all connected in one way or
another. For example, you could easily buy a plane ticket and get to the other side of the
world in less than a day or use technology to send a video of your cat to your relatives in
Minnesota. But the world wasn't always like this. Many important events and movements led
to the development of the world we know and sometimes love. Today we will look at one of
them. Colonialism occurs when one nation subjugates another nation often forcing their
culture and language upon the local population. Colonialism is a policy that closely relates to
imperialism but they do differ slightly. Imperialism is about controlling the country or
countries often with military forces while colonialism is more about expanding their host
country's influence and setting up colonies. Decolonization is a process in which colonies
became independent from their host countries. Many European superpowers lack the wealth
and resources to uphold their overseas colonies. They also face challenges against the world's
new superpower, the Soviet Union and the United States, both of which were against
colonialism. By the early 19th century, a vast majority of the world's nations have been
colonized by European powers. The empire building and resource driven exploitation of
states and their populations continue to influence the world today, from language, religion,
and cultural beliefs to legal and economic systems. In Southern countries, colonial practices
included slavery, genocide, and the creation of political and ethnic divisions that remain to
this day. Others have argued that Western colonization in some instances benefited colonized
populations with the rule of law and also infrastructure. Not english in blood and color, but in
other ways. So english education in india was intended to create a class of interpreters
between the colonial government and the vast indian population. Speaking and teaching
english is intimately bound up with colonialism The white man should have stayed for 100
years more in the colonies, for instance, in 24 years, the black man has been in charge in
South Africa. It's been full of corruption, and it has yielded another form of segregation
outright racist xenophobia. what happened is that when England or France or Belgium pulled
out of Asian and African countries, it's those collaborating corrupt elites who ended up taking
over. And colonialism didn't just disappear. all former colonial powers continued to have
huge stakes in their former colonies. And neocolonialism is something that we haven't talked
about very much, the ways in which colonialism continued in certain ways with the help of
local elites. So talking about white men and black men first of all, that is outright racist. But
also, it bears no resemblance to how history actually operated. Colonialization and
Imperialism the industrial revolution in Europe assured in an era of machine made goods and
scope for markets. The voyages of discovery undertaken at this time also propelled the need
to occupy territory which had huge natural resources waiting to be exploited. The bonus was
cheap labor also available. This was the background with which imperialism started.
Imperialism can be broadly divided into two phases namely old imperialism and new
imperialism. Good governance based on the rule of law came into existence. Setting up a
judicial system also was a benefit for the colonies. On the flip side, these colonies were
exploited thoroughly and caused a drain of wealth from the poorer nations. Probably the
worst effect of this was causing the First World War. Neoclonialism in a lot of ways mirrors
traditional colonialism. Both result in the exploitation of people within a weaker state. Many
thought that colonialism and its ills were gone the moment former colonies gained their
independence. But like everything else in life, it's not that simple. While there has been
progress since African and Asian countries gain their political independence, there's still a lot
of work to be done to achieve total independence. These aren't the only issues either.
Countries like China have been accused of luring developing nations in Latin America, Asia
and Africa into debt traps, which leads many to accuse the country having neocolonialist
ambitions. Overall, neo colonialism is a real issue within many countries. It's not talked about
nearly as much as it should be. Developing countries need to address the issue and do so
effectively if they truly want to be more than just tools to enrich more powerful countries.
Globalization is defined as the intensification and acceleration of social exchange, social
consciousness and social activities that allows all types of people to interact. It is the dynamic
shift towards a unified world where borders, language, ethnicity, government, etc. Do not
limit communication. Thanks to the growth of technology, it is now easier than ever for the 7
billion people on this planet to interact and grow as a society. During this time, prehistoric
man spread across the globe in small groups of huntergatherers, as seen in the animals
depicted here on the walls of Alaska caves in France. Global companies began to crop up
during this time. It was after World War II where communism became the main threat. No
longer can world problems be contained merely by borders, as they have grown too large and
affect too many people. For example, there is an increased importance placed on education.
The history of globalization shows as people become more educated and develop new
technology, their overall quality of life improves. Globalization is defined as the
intensification and acceleration of social exchange, consciousness and activities allowing all
types of people interact. History shows there will always be conflict, but overall lives of
people on earth are improving due to the process of globalization. Before the Industrial
Revolution began in England around the year 1760, the way most people lived in Europe,
europe and America was very different from how they live today. Nine out of ten people
lived in rural areas. There was a large, mostly poor, lower class, a small, rich, upper class,
and not much of a middle class. Textile manufacturing was the first major industry to
undergo industrialization and for many people the change was tragic. That was because
before the industrial revolution, the poor rural population had few ways of earning a living
except for the unreliable income they got from farming. More and more mines were
developed to supply industry, and large scale mining itself resulted in tremendous, endless
environmental damage in many parts of the world. By the year 1900, industrialization was
firmly in place across much of Europe and America.Many of them now lived in homes
illuminated with electric light bulbs. Their children attended public schools. They could listen
to recorded music in their homes instead of going to a concert hall. They could even watch
motion pictures, talk on the telephone and ride in an automobile. For the Industrial
Revolution had ushered in the modern age. And with it came not only tremendous
technological and environmental changes, but a brand new middle class of hardworking
people as well. The French revolution of 1789 changed the world inspired by the
Enlightenment notions of liberty. Equality and brotherhood the people of France to all control
of their destiny from the king. Nobility and church giving birth to a new way of seeing the
world around us the revolution was a war whose battlefield was the visual world where the
symbols of royal. Deep under the streets of Paris are the remains of perhaps the greatest act of
iconic lasam of the whole French Revolution. These stones are all that remains today of the
huge royal jail, the Bastille, the ultimate symbol of royal despotism. But the revolutionaries
turned it from a symbol of cruelty into an emblem of freedom. In the days before the
storming of the Bastille, parisians were, to say the least, agitated. They'd been concerned that
the city was surrounded by royal troops and it was. We get Parisians starting to arm
themselves. This single wall of a single church in Paris tells a story of a succession of
revolutionary conflicts. As the revolution progressed, the temporary solution of just
plastering over the coats of arms of aristocrats was no longer really working. They'd been
doing that work, but now they were starting to emigrate. The French Revolution shows us
that those who control our symbolic world can never take their power for granted. There's
always somebody who's willing to scrawl on a symbol, to pull it down, to smash it up, to
smear it with shit, to set it on fire, or to make supple and creative changes to it that create a
new symbol. As Picasso taught us, the act of creation is always first and foremost an act of
destruction. The Protestant Reformation of the 16th century shook the very foundation of
Europe's cultural identity. The Reformation was a revolution of religion in Western Europe.
Essentially, it was the result of central centuries worth of political and social grievances
against the Christian Church as it existed.