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European Imperialism

European Imperialism. European countries & their colonial empires in 1914. Germans taking possession of Cameroon, W. Africa in 1881. Bagged ground nuts in West Africa. Sketch map of Central Africa, showing Dr. Livingstone’s exploration.

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European Imperialism

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  1. European Imperialism

  2. European countries & their colonial empires in 1914

  3. Germans taking possession of Cameroon, W. Africa in 1881.

  4. Bagged ground nuts in West Africa

  5. Sketch map of Central Africa, showing Dr. Livingstone’s exploration

  6. As yet, the Congo is a blank, a fruitless waste, a desolate and unproductive area…It has been our purpose to fill this blank with life, to redeem this waste, to plant and sow that the dark man may gather, to vivify the wide wild lands so forgotten by Europe. - Henry Stanley, 1882

  7. Africans bringing ivory to the wagons in S. Africa, 1860

  8. Open-shaft diamond mining at Kimberley, South Africa, in 1872

  9. Methodist Sunday School in Angola, S. Africa in 1925

  10. Ad for Pear’s Soap from the 1890’s , and one stanza of the British poet Rudyard Kipling’s poem, The White Man’s Burden

  11. Epitaph & quote from missionary & explorer David Livingstone “…For 30 years his life was spent in an unwearied effort to evangelize the native races, to explore the undiscovered secrets, to abolish the desolating slave trade, of Central Africa…”

  12. An imperial yacht passing through the Suez Canal in Egypt at the opening of the canal in 1870

  13. European claims in Africa 1850 1914

  14. British Lipton Tea ad in the 1890’s

  15. Mrs. Maria C. Douglas, doctor & missionary, and the first class of pupil nurses in Burma in 1988

  16. British cartoon showing the Chinese being savaged by European powers

  17. French capture of the citadel of Saigon, Vietnam

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