The Rwandan genocide was a gruesome incident that occurred due to the effect left on the Rwandan people and politics after the Belgian colonized it. While there were distinguishable groups called Hutu and Tutsi before the colonial era, these distinctions were sharpened and institutionalized early in the twentieth century by Christian missionaries and the Belgian colonizing power. Before the independence of Rwanda, based on divisive racist myths invented by Roman Catholic missionaries, the Belgians embraced the Tutsi, whom they saw as marching haltingly towards acclaiming heights of whites like themselves. The Belgians issued identity cards in Rwanda bearing people’s ethnic groups, though they found no more than fifteen percent of the population as being Tutsi, the Belgians created a small elite among the Tutsi as their governing accomplices. The winds of change, however, brought decolonization and majority rule but not democracy, by the late 1950s to early 1960s, the Hutu demanded and won Rwanda’s independence but not before several unprecedented anti-Tutsi demonstrations that led to many deaths and large-scale refugee movements into neighbouring countries. In the course of a hundred days in 1994 the Hutu government of Rwanda and its extremist allies very nearly succeeded in exterminating the country's Tutsi minority. Using firearms, machetes, and a variety of garden implements, Hutu militiamen, soldiers, and ordinary citizens murdered approximately a million Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu. It was the fastest, most efficient killing spree of the twentieth century. Some may argue that it was inevitable that the Hutu and Tutsi would become so intolerant of each other at one point, causing an unpleasant encounter between the two. There is no way to truly know what the world would have been like without imperialism though one is capable of a rebuttal, Imperialism was a great catalyst in causing the Rwandan genocide this is true for the reason that the Europeans made one group elite because of how they looked and degraded another group based on the same criteria, this caused an hatred between the two groups which was the fundamental aspect of the Rwandan genocide.
The depletion of the Aztec religion, culture and civilization was another case in point where historical globalization triggered a gruesome abolishment of a unique and intellectual people. The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was one of the most important campaigns in the . The invasion began in February 1519 and was achieved on August 13, 1521 by led by . It appears that Cortés' intention was to maintain the basic structure of the Aztec empire under his leadership, and at first it seemed the Aztec empire would survive. The upper Aztec classes, at first, were considered as noblemen, they learned Spanish, and several learned to write in European characters. Also, the first missionaries tried to learn Nahuatl and some, like Bernardino de Sahagún, decided to learn as much as they could of the Aztec culture. To pay off the Spanish army that captured Mexico, the system known as , became a system of oppression and exploitation of natives, although its originators may not have set out with such intent. Due to some horrifying instances of abuse against the indigenous peoples, Bishop suggested importing black slaves to replace them. Bartolomé later repented when he saw the even worse treatment given to the black slaves. The other discovery that perpetuated this system was extensive silver mines discovered at , in Peru and other places that were worked for hundreds of years by forced native labor and contributed most of the wealth that flowed to Spain.
It soon became apparent that most of the natives had adopted "the god of the heavens" as they called it, as just another one of their many gods, while it was the god of the conquerors the natives did not see why they had to abandon their old beliefs. As a result, a second wave of missionaries began a process attempting to completely erase the old beliefs, and thus wiped out many aspects of Mesoamerican culture. Hundreds of thousands of Aztec pieces of literature were destroyed, Aztec priests and teachers were persecuted and the temples and statues of the old gods were destroyed. The Aztec education system was abolished and replaced by a very limited church education. Even some foods associated with Mesoamerican religious practice, such as , were forbidden. In some areas, some of the natives were declared , and forbidden to learn to read and write, so they would always need a Spanish man in charge of them to be responsible of their indoctrination. Unlike the English-speaking colonists of North America, the majority of the Spanish colonists were single men who married or made concubines of the native people, and were even encouraged to do so by during the earliest days of colonization. As a result of these unions, as well as concubinage and secret mistresses, a vast class of people known as ""(mixed race) came into being. It may be raised that the colonizing of Europeans in South America was inevitable and bound to happen though I wish to counter that if colonization in the Americas was inevitable Europeans could have shared the land and respected the natives and their traditions rather than to enslave and kill natives.
Another mortifying episode in time was the British’s pitiless feat of India causing many people to suffer. The taking over of India was started by the British East India Company starting an army and attempting rule over India and then followed the British crown ruling India. The conquest of India was done for the resources in India such as spices, textiles, gold, precious gems, large population and large source of land. Through the conquest of India there was much bloodshed for example the Mughal Empire was destroyed and the Mughal people were killed many fled to survive, this led to the loss of the Mughal culture. During the British Raj, , often attributed to government policies, were some of the worst ever recorded, including the , in which 6.1 million to 10.3 million people died and the , in which 1.25 to 10 million people died. It may be argued that colonization in India was inevitable though India had a strong government and could have survived well without being colonized.
By all the information above it can be perceived that historical globalization was a negative force. Though historical glovalization caused much greif, places affected by imperialism are moving forward some may take longer to heal and recover and others may not but the reality of it all is that the imprint left by historical globalization can not be removed. Despite this fact the world today is percieved as unique and distinctive because of all the events that have taken place whether good or bad it has changed us and made us more rounded unique people. In inferance historical globalization has left an irreversible mark on the world and has changed everyone who lives on the world whether they were apart of imperialism or not.
