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Imperialism

Imperialism. The Scramble for Resources and Power. What does it mean? The taking of a country or territory by a stronger country Why would one country want to take over another? How did the Industrial Revolution inspire countries to do this?. Imperialism Defined.

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Imperialism

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  1. Imperialism The Scramble for Resources and Power

  2. What does it mean? • The taking of a country or territory by a stronger country • Why would one country want to take over another? • How did the Industrial Revolution inspire countries to do this? Imperialism Defined

  3. Belief in Racial and Religious Superiority • Social Darwinism • Need for Natural Resources for your industries • Cocoa, gold, copper, rubber, palm oil, diamonds, etc. • The need for power/control • Keeping up with the “Joneses” Reasons to Imperialize Another…

  4. What did the Europeans have that most other regions of the world didn’t? • Railroads • Other Advanced Inventions/technology • Advanced Weapons (like the Maxim gun) Advantages of the Europeans

  5. China • India • Southeast Asia • Africa Where were some prime spots to imperialize?

  6. Africa…. • Very rough terrain…hard to get to the interior of the country • Sharp cliffs on the coast • Deserts • Jungles • Rough Rivers • Disease • Remember Jared Diamond? Guns, Germs, and Steel? Why didn’t the Europeans take over these places before?

  7. Steam engine and the locomotive (train)…along with African slave labor to build tracks helped the Europeans reach the interior of the continent and its rich resources. • Travel reporters and the tales of the “Wild Africa” made the land seem adventurous and appealing • “Dr. Livingston, I presume?” What helped the Europeans get into Africa?

  8. European Colonization of Africa ~Conflict~

  9. Vocabulary review • Colony • A country or area controlled by a foreign land • Colonialism • The concept that nations want to gain colonies for their country… (-ism means “the act of….”) • Conquer • To acquire or overcome by force

  10. Scramble for Africa • 1870s • European nations wanted to divide up Africa for themselves • Why?..... • Africa had a ton of resources they could make money from • Coffee, diamonds, copper, gold, cocoa beans, oils, etc. • Flex their territory muscles • Owning territory and building an empire made you look good to the rest of the world….. Power!

  11. Berlin Conference 1884 • Many countries met in Berlin, Germany, to discuss how they would divide up Africa among them. • France, Germany, Great Britain, and Portugal were the major players in the conference, controlling most of colonial Africa at the time. • Guess who wasn’t invited…….

  12. How might these new boundaries cause conflicts?

  13. So, Europeans just…took over?How? • Europeans in Africa = minority • Needed some way of becoming more powerful in the eyes of the Africans… • Created Chaos

  14. Invention of Tradition • Telling the Africans their traditions • “You are a tribal people” • Gets people to think that that’s all they can be… • OR • Africans would try and gain power with the Europeans and would invent their own histories…. • Real histories erased…everyone is confused…ethnic groups turn against each other

  15. Divide and Conquer • If you take a bunch of groups and keep them from uniting against you…. Or you purposely turn them against each other…. • Chaos • Can come in and rule

  16. Simulation • Which form of conquering did we see in the simulation? (invention of tradition? Divide and conquer?) • How was the simulation like the scramble for Africa? • Individual groups • reorganization • Secret rewards • chaos

  17. “Does the white man understand our custom about land?” “How can he when he does not even speak our tongue? But he says that our customs are bad; and our own brothers who have taken up his religion also say that our customs are bad. How do you think we can fight when our own brothers have turned against us? The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.” ~From Things Fall Apart

  18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw12KGSj53k~Colonialism in 10 mins (4:40) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWF4DViWeXw ~Rwanda history

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