MMW 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nonviolent Resistance, Coruscant, Indian South Africans
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New political entities -> turned smaller societies into bigger states. New laws limiting immigration of certain groups of people. Designed to exclude certain groups from traveling to certain parts of the world. By 1902 over 90% of the continent was under the control of european powers; france, People were forced overnight to submit to a new political structure. In the early twentieth century, empired forced societies around the world into new relationships bound by. The period of empire in the first half of the twentieth century, we see a limitation of the movements of people as well as the facilitation of greater connections between people. Empire: an extensive group of states, societies, or peoples under a single, supreme. Imperialism: the policy of extending a nation"s power and influence either through authority diplomacy or military force. You don"t actually have to have an empire to participate in imperialism.