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Chapter 16

Chapter 16. Imperialism Part 1. “The sun never set on the British Empire.” What did that mean?. The sun was always shining on the British Empire somewhere in the world. What is an empire? What is an emperor? What is imperialism ? The act of …. What do they have in common?.

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Chapter 16

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  1. Chapter 16 Imperialism Part 1

  2. “The sun never set on the British Empire.” What did that mean?

  3. The sun was always shining on the British Empire somewhere in the world.

  4. What is an empire? • What is an emperor? • What is imperialism? The act of …. • What do they have in common?

  5. What is This?

  6. Europeans in Africa

  7. Britain in much of the World

  8. The U.S. gained the Philippines, Guam, Cuba, and Puerto Ricoin which war?

  9. French Imperialism

  10. Match the Empires to the controlling country

  11. What was White Man's Burden?

  12. White Man's Burden was a poem by Englishman Rudyard Kipling in 1899. • The poem conveys the view that colonial powers (Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Italy and the United States), had a duty to civilize the barbaric world. • It poem begins by describing the colonized Filipinos as “half devil and half child". There were many vocal opponents though, most notably authors Mark Twain and Henry James.

  13. White Man's Burden • Imperialists had an obligation to "civilize" the peoples of third world countries. • What does the native look like? Why?

  14. Europeanterritories in Africa, 1914

  15. European powers divided Africa at the Berlin Conference in 1884.

  16. The Berlin Conference 1884 Only Liberia (settled by former African-American slaves); and Ethiopia, which resisted Italy, remained independent.

  17. How were the Europeans able to conquer Africa? See next slide for the answer

  18. How the Europeansconquered Africa. • Machine gun • Telephone • Steam boats • Railroads • African tribal wars • Africans spoke hundreds of languages (there are over 2000 languages in Africa)

  19. In which decade did most countries receive their independence?

  20. Cell PhoneTower Warn-ing !

  21. The Suez Canal

  22. The Suez Canal • Built by the French in 1869 • Connected the Red and Med. Seas. • Strategic location because ….

  23. The Suez Canal

  24. Cecil Rhodes • Established the British colonies of Zambia and Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)

  25. Cecil Rhodes • Made millions with De Beers Diamond Company.

  26. Did you see the blood moon on Wed.?

  27. The De Beers Mining Company • was founded in 1888 by Cecil Rhodes • De Beers is a cartel of companies that dominate the diamond, diamond mining, diamond shops, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. • De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial, coastal and deep sea. • Mining takes place in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Canada.

  28. Check out how diamonds are cut on the web • http://www.diamondschool.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34

  29. Rhodes Scholarship • at Oxford University, Oxford, England • is the world's most prestigious scholarship • Bill Clinton is a Rhodes Scholar

  30. Africa continued on part 2 PowerPoint

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