Why were Europeans attracted to Africa in the late 19th century ? Mention any three reasons.

Reasons for the Nationalist upsurge in the 19th century Europe : (i) Oppression of people under absolute rulers. (ii) Liberal ideas spread by well-known philosophers and leaders. (iii) The French Revolution inspired the...

(i)  A flow of Trade: Trade in goods, eg., cloth, or wheat, giving shape to a global agricultural economy where food no longer came from a nearby village or town, but from...

(i) Europeans were attracted due to the resources of land and minerals of Africa. (ii) They came to Africa to establish plantations and exploit mines. (iii) African countries were militarily weak and...

Europeans fled to America in the 19h century because : (i) Until the 19'h century, power and hunger were common in Europe. (ii) Cities were crowded and deadly diseases were widespread. (iii) Religious...

(i) Britain imposed import duties on cotton textiles, thus export market got declined. (ii) Exports of British goods to India increased. The Manchester goods flooded Indian markets. (iii) The machine-made goods were...

Restrictions imposed by the British Government upon the Indian merchants were : (i) The colonial control over Indian trade tightened and space within which Indian merchants could function became limited. (ii) They...

New readers in the 19th century included children, women and workers.  (i) As primary education became compulsory in the late 19th century, children became an important category of readers. School textbooks...

Reasons for the Nationalist upsurge in the 19th century Europe : (i) Oppression of people under absolute rulers. (ii) Liberal ideas spread by well-known philosophers and leaders. (iii) The French Revolution inspired the...

From the late 19th century, issues of caste discrimination began to be written. (i) Jyotiba Phule, the Maratha pioneer of low caste, started a protest movement. He wrote about the injustice...

Causes: (i) Huge population depended on dung and wood as fuel in their daily life. (ii) The industries and establishments that used steam engines were run on coal. (iii) In 1855, the...