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Twitter account created for this class: @ 43123uwin

Twitter account created for this class: @ 43123uwin. http ://43123uwin.wordpress.com / Website for the class. Imperialism Motivations Methods Scramble for Africa. The Scramble for Africa. 1880s American political cartoon. Imperialism. Imperial Territorial acquisition

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  1. Twitter account created for this class: @43123uwin http://43123uwin.wordpress.com/ Website for the class

  2. Imperialism Motivations Methods Scramble for Africa The Scramble for Africa

  3. 1880s American political cartoon

  4. Imperialism • Imperial • Territorial acquisition • Extension of power/influence • European imperialism • i. c. 1492-1870 • Ii. c. 1870-1914

  5. Africa in 1880

  6. Africa in 1914

  7. Motivations for Empire 1. Trade and resources 2. National pride 3. Religious/“civilizing” factor

  8. Ivory trade

  9. Leopold II

  10. Motivations for Empire 1. Trade and resources 2. National pride 3. Religious/“civilizing” factor

  11. “Our task is to strip the Herero of his heritage and nationalist characteristics and gradually submerge him, along with the other natives, into a single coloured working class” -German official Herero of German Southwest Africa (Namibia)‏

  12. Queen Victoria presents bible to an African leader

  13. Methods • Technology • Medicine -quinine • Civil service class

  14. Technology 1865 Gatling Gun Zulu Warrior c.1879 1884 Maxim Gun

  15. Resistance Technology Ethiopia & Italy Battle of Adwa March 1896

  16. Scramble for Africa 1880: Europe ruled 10% of Africa 1914: Europe ruled 99% of Africa Liberia & Ethiopia Europe – slave trade Leopold II (Belgium) 1871-1900: Britain added 66 million Africans France added 26 million Africans

  17. Berlin West Africa Conference 1884-85 • “first come, first served”

  18. Congo Free State 1885-1908 From personal to national Belgian colony Atrocities in Belgian Congo: amputations

  19. Recommended reading. Leddy has one copy: DT 28 .P34 1991

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