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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: - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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 19th century.
Analyzing Motives of Imperialism
• ECONOMIC: • POLITICAL:• REGLIGIOUS:• EXPLORATORY:• IDEOLOGICAL:
Economic Motives of Imperialism
• ECONOMIC: –Make $$–Control foreign trade –Discover new markets –Raw materials and cheap labor– Investments–Export technology.
Political Motives of Imperialism
• POLITICAL: –Gain power–Compete with other countries–Expand territory–Exercise military force–Gain prestige–Boost national pride & security
Religious Motives of Imperialism
• RELIGIOUS: –Spread Christianity–Spread European, American, and Western values and moral beliefs–Educate people from other cultures
Exploratory Motives of Imperialism
• EXPLORATORY: –Explore the “unknown”–Conduct scientific research–Medical searches/find medical remedies–Adventure–Investigate “unknown” cultures.
Ideological Motives of Imperialism
• IDEOLOGICAL: – Cultural values– Belief in Race superiority (racism)– Belief in duty to “civilize” people in
other parts of the world– Belief that all great nations should have
empires– Social Darwinish-“Survival of the
Fittest”- only the strongest nations will survive.
Economic Motives of Imperialism
• ECONOMIC: –Make $$–Control foreign trade –New markets –Raw materials and cheap labor– Investments–Export technology
PHOTO #1: Open-shaft diamond mining in Kimberly, South Africa, 1872
PHOTO #2: A Methodist Sunday School at Guiongua, Angola, 1925
PHOTO #3: Germans taking possession of Cameroon in 1881
PHOTO #4: Quote from Henry
Stanley in 1882
PHOTO #5: Africans bringing ivory to the wagon in South Africa, c. 1860
PHOTO #6: Sketch map of Central African, showing Dr. Livingstone’s exploration
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
PHOTO #8: Bagged
groundnuts in pyramid stacks in
West Africa
PHOTO #9: French capture of the citadel of Saigon, Vietnam
PHOTO #10: British Lipton Tea advertisement in the 1890s
PHOTO #11: British cartoon “The Rhodes Colossus” showing Cecil Rhodes’ vision of making Africa “all British from Cape to
Cairo” 1892
PHOTO #12: Epitaph and quote from
missionary and explorer David
Livingstone