7) WHAT DOES STRAYER MEAN BY THE "ECHOES OF ATLANTIC REVOLUTION"?
The ideals that endured from these revolutions, including: equality, liberty, freedom, human rights, and citizenship have lived on, and the echoes can be heard in every revolution and political movement from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. "Modern revolutionaries acted on the basis of Enlightenment ideas_that the structure of human societies was not forever ordained by God or tradition and that it was both possible and necessary to reconstruct those societies". (Strayer 2009)
8) HOW DID THE MOVE FROM TRADITIONAL FORMS OF PRODUCTION TO THE "CASH CROP" SYSTEM AFFECT AFRICANS UNDER COLONIAL RULE?
The Cash Crop system that the Europeans developed during colonial rule was for their own profit and export. This system took away land and labor from the local food production farming and caused great hardships for the Africans under colonial rule. They were forced to cultivate these cash crops for the colonizers and were punished in some cases with limb mutilation for missing quota goals. Many colonies specialized in only a few cash crops and this created a unhealthy dependence when market prices dropped.
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