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Imperialism Motives & Justifications

Imperialism Motives & Justifications. Analyzing Motives of Imperialism. GOAL: You will be analyzing written and visual artifacts depicting European motives for empire building in the late 19 th century. . Analyzing Motives of Imperialism. ECONOMIC: POLITICAL: REGLIGIOUS: EXPLORATORY:

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Imperialism Motives & Justifications

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  1. Imperialism Motives & Justifications

  2. Analyzing Motives of Imperialism GOAL: You will be analyzing written and visual artifacts depicting European motives for empire building in the late 19th century.

  3. Analyzing Motives of Imperialism • ECONOMIC: • POLITICAL: • REGLIGIOUS: • EXPLORATORY: • IDEOLOGICAL:

  4. Economic Motives of Imperialism • ECONOMIC: • Make $$ • Control foreign trade • Discover new markets • Raw materials and cheap labor • Investments • Export technology.

  5. Political Motives of Imperialism • POLITICAL: • Gain power • Compete with other countries • Expand territory • Exercise military force • Gain prestige • Boost national pride & security

  6. Religious Motives of Imperialism • RELIGIOUS: • Spread Christianity • Spread European, American, and Western values and moral beliefs • Educate people from other cultures

  7. Exploratory Motives of Imperialism • EXPLORATORY: • Explore the “unknown” • Conduct scientific research • Medical searches/find medical remedies • Adventure • Investigate “unknown” cultures.

  8. Ideological Motives of Imperialism • IDEOLOGICAL: • Cultural values • Belief in Race superiority (racism) • Belief in duty to “civilize” people in other parts of the world • Belief that all great nations should have empires • Social Darwinish-“Survival of the Fittest”- only the strongest nations will survive.

  9. Economic Motives of Imperialism • ECONOMIC: • Make $$ • Control foreign trade • New markets • Raw materials and cheap labor • Investments • Export technology

  10. PHOTO #1: Open-shaft diamond mining in Kimberly, South Africa, 1872

  11. PHOTO #2: A Methodist Sunday School at Guiongua, Angola, 1925

  12. PHOTO #3: Germans taking possession of Cameroon in 1881

  13. PHOTO #4: Quote from Henry Stanley in 1882

  14. PHOTO #5: Africans bringing ivory to the wagon in South Africa, c. 1860

  15. PHOTO #6: Sketch map of Central African, showing Dr. Livingstone’s exploration

  16. PHOTO #7: An advertisement for Pears’ Soap from the 1890s, and one stanza of the British poet Rudyard Kipling’s poem, The White Man’s Burden, written in 1899

  17. PHOTO #8: Bagged groundnuts in pyramid stacks in West Africa

  18. PHOTO #9: French capture of the citadel of Saigon, Vietnam

  19. PHOTO #10: British Lipton Tea advertisement in the 1890s

  20. PHOTO #11: British cartoon “The Rhodes Colossus” showing Cecil Rhodes’ vision of making Africa “all British from Cape to Cairo” 1892

  21. PHOTO #12: Epitaph and quote from missionary and explorer David Livingstone

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