Discuss 2 ways that colonialism transformed local economies.

The first way that colonialism transformed local economies
was often to move them from subsistence economies to economies that produced staple
crops or that produced other things.  For example, an economy in which most people
farmed for themselves might change to one in which many people were working on
plantations growing things like bananas or in mines. 

A
second way that colonialism transformed local economies was to make them focus on the
needs of the mother country rather than on their own needs.  They were no longer trying
to produce what their own people wanted and they were no longer trying to do things that
would advance their own economic development.  Instead, their whole existence revolved
around the needs of the colonizers.