Bellringer: Which European country had the largest overseas empire?

1. Bellringer:Which European country had the largest overseas empire?

2. Bellringer:Which European country had the largest overseas empire?Great Britain

3. Today-Objective: Imperialism Today-Europeans Build New Empires • Analyze the causes of the “new imperialism.” • Explain why Western imperialism spread so rapidly. • Describe how imperial governments ruled their empires. • Take a test on nationalism

4. Terms • imperialism – the domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region • protectorate – a region in which a local ruler was left in place but expected to follow the advice of European advisors on issues such as trade or missionary activity • sphere of influence – an area in which an outside power claimed exclusive investment or trading privileges

5. How did Western nations come to dominate much of the world in the late 1800s? Great Britain and other Western countries built overseas empires in the late 1800s. Advances in science and technology, industry, transportation, and communication gave these industrialized nations many advantages. Armed with new economic and political power, Western nations set out to dominate the world.

6. In the late 1800s, Western imperialism expanded aggressively. • Imperialismis the domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region. • Although Europeans had established colonies earlier, they had previously had little direct influence over people in China, India, or Africa.

7. Forces Behind the “New Imperialism” Aggressive national pride, known as jingoism, fueled competition for colonies.

8. Missionaries, doctors, and colonial officials saw it as their duty to spread the blessings of Western civilization. • These benefits included medicine, law, and the Christian religion. Imperialism was also driven by genuine humanitarian and religious goals.

9. Behind the West’s civilizing mission was also a sense of racial superiority. • Social Darwinists applied Darwin’s theory of natural selection to societies. • They saw imperialism as nature’s way of improving the human race. As a result, many non-Westerners lost their cultural heritage.

10. From 1870 to 1914, imperialist nations gained control over much of the world. • Explorers, missionaries, soldiers, merchants, and settlers led the way. • Imperialism found support among all classes of society, including bankers, manufacturers, and workers. French soldiers in Madagascar

11. Western expansion succeeded for a number of reasons.

12. Imperialist nations developed several ways to rule their colonies.

13. Two other forms of rule were through protectorates and spheres of influence.

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