During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, freedom, equality, and traditional values ​​were stripped from many African nations, due to European colonization. In Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart, he tells the story of an African man named Okonkwo, who is banished from his village of Umuofia for seven years, and is forced to return to his hometown of Mbanta. After seven years, he returns to Umuofia and faces the struggle to deal with the modernizations initiated by the European settlers. The different perspectives on the economy, the effect it has on society and the power of wealth and influence in the implementation of judicial systems between the Igbo culture and the European culture lead to the launch of modernization. After reading Things Fall Apart, readers will discover that economics plays a key role in many cultures. European and Igbo cultures have different perspectives on the economy, one being about wealth and success while the other focuses on a strong economy and political institution. Okwonko, originally from Igbo, grew up poor but rose through the ranks to become someone much better than his father, who died heavily in debt. At the age of 18, Okonkwo became famous as the greatest wrestler among the nine local villages, having won an undefeated fight. Through this struggle the narrator claims to become "a wealthy farmer who had two barns full of sweet potatoes and had just married his third wife." (Achebe 6). Thanks to his wrestling fame, Okonkwo gets three wives and becomes a wealthy farmer with two barns full of sweet potatoes. Achebe shows us that because of the economy of Igbo culture, many poor people strive to become prosperous and wealthy. Some become rich through personal achievement and manage to get sweet potatoes and a generous amount... half the paper... hem it out. Achebe includes this quote to give us an example of how Europeans manage to take over the leaders of the Igbo culture. This new scheme changes society, hiding all the tribe's past progress and reveals an entirely new community under European colonization. The Igbo and Europeans worked hard to implement new ideas into the community, but eventually the Europeans managed to take control of the Igbo culture. European and Igbo cultures contrast in their views of the economy, the community effects of economics and education, and the functions of power in creating governmental and judicial systems. Ultimately, the Igbo were simply too understaffed to deal with the Europeans, causing their collapse. By reading Things Fall Apart, readers will understand the struggles cultures face under the influence of wealth, power, and greed..