Impact of Colonialism on Land Exploitation and Modern Agriculture

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Colonialism sought to exploit land for profit by imposing individual land rights, leading to the overuse and degradation of natural resources. Extraction of resources like gold and silver, coupled with destructive agricultural practices such as sugar monoculture, reshaped landscapes globally. This legacy persists today, with cash crops replacing staple foods and ecological consequences affecting our world.

  • Colonialism
  • Land Exploitation
  • Agriculture
  • Environmental Degradation
  • Modern Consequences

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  1. Colonialism & Profit What did colonialism seek to do?

  2. To occupy land, colonizers could not just live in nature to expand their empire, land had to be subjected to exploitation, overuse, pollution, and deforestation. Nature and open land was seen as an opportunity to be made useful and profitable. Indigenous ideals of collective land ownership were forced out as individual land and property rights were imposed.

  3. Colonialism & Extraction How was the land treated? Add thoughts below

  4. Colonizers were amazed and obsessed with gold and silver throughout the 16th-19th century, millions of kilograms of silver were extracted from the mines of Latin America and brought to Europe.

  5. One of the most destructive agrarian practices was from sugar cane production everywhere sugar cane was cultivated, woodlands, forest life, and rainforests were demolished: in the Canary and Cape Verde islands to produce sugar cane, forests and woodlands were cleared and became deserts; in the Americas, land was stripped of forest life and burned completely; in the West Indies and Guyana, rainforests were destroyed; Haiti, named the green island in Arawak, was stripped of trees.

  6. Sugars monoculture logic was applied to various other commodities for profit: coffee plantations, rubber plantations, ricefields, and cotton plantations. Because of this, soils became exhausted and sterile.

  7. Around the world, staple crops relevant to each continent's climate, soil, and culture were replaced with cash crops crops produced for their monetary value rather than for sustainable agricultural use by the grower.

  8. Todays Consequences How has colonialism shaped our world today?

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