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Imperialism in Africa. The Congo. Livingston and Stanley Belgian Congo Ivory, Gold and Rubber Greatest source of wealth in minerals. Motives. Racism - Social Darwinism Herbert Spencer’s theory as it related to poor and conquered people Economic- mostly mineral not agricultural Political
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The Congo • Livingston and Stanley • Belgian Congo • Ivory, Gold and Rubber • Greatest source of wealth in minerals
Motives • Racism - Social Darwinism Herbert Spencer’s theory as it related to poor and conquered people • Economic- mostly mineral not agricultural • Political • Exploration • Missionary Impulse
Forces that enabled Conquest • Maxim Machine Gun • Railroad, Steam ships • Cure for Malaria (quinine)
Division • Berlin Conference (1884-1885) • Division based on European needs not African
African leader to Germans “I have listened to your words but can find no reason why I should obey you- I would rather die first… I look for some reason why I should obey you and find not the smallest. If it should be friendship that you desire then I am ready for it, today and always; but to be your subject, that I can not be.”
South Africa • Zulu- organized large central power in South Africa by Shaka • Dutch Settle South Africa-Boers, Afrikaners • British fight the Dutch in the Boer War to take colony • Great Trek- Dutch flee British and move Northward where they clash with Zulu. • Dutch ask for help from British to help defeat Zulu • Boer War- War between Dutch settlers and British. Use of Guerilla and concentration camps. • Total Warfare
Summary Questions • Boers were farmers living in South Africa from what nation? • What is racism? • Who met at the Berlin Conference? • What was Social Darwinism? What did it justify? • What was the greatest source of wealth in Africa? • What portion of Africa did Shaka Organize the Zulu? • What Group of people went on the Great Trek?