what’s imperialism again? what’s an empire? when did european imperialism begin? old...
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Old Imperialism
• When did European imperialism begin?
• Old Imperialism-European colonization from 15th to early 19th Cs.
New Imperialism
• Colonization by the Euros, Americans, and Japanese in the 19th an early 20th Cs.
• Driven by changes in technology and desire for resources
• By 1880, Europe controlled only about 10% of Africa, mostly along coast
• Why do you think this is?
3) African societies
• Strong African armies• Trade networks brought goods to port
colonies
FYI: This is Shaka Zulu, who built a huge kingdom in what is today South Africa that later battled Europeans
But then…changes in Europe! (Causes)
TechnologySteam ShipsMaxim gunsRRsTelegraphQuinine (treated malaria)-Actually
super important!
Other things spurring African colonization:
1) Interest-Explorers brought tales
Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
• Nationalistic desire to increase your nation’s status
• What’s nationalism again?• How would it lead to a desire to “out
do” other nation?
• Racism and Social Darwinism
• How did colonization lead to the development of race as an idea again?• What’s Darwinism? How could it be
applied to society?
• African disunity
• Where else did disunity amongst native peoples make colonization easy for Euros?
First step/Cause:
• 1879-82: King Leopold (Belgium) establishes a personal kingdom (i.e. he personally owned it) in the Congo based on rubber
FYI, no need to write down: Congolese people, and sometimes their family members, had hands chopped off if they failed to meet rubber collection quotas
Effect
• Other European nations began claiming territories in Africa• Germany, recently united, doesn’t
want to be left out, calls for
Results of real Conference
• Major rule-Principle of Effective Occupation: You had to actually control an area through direct rule or treaty, to claim it
• Within 30 years, all of Africa, except Ethiopia and Liberia, colonized• Colonial
boundaries had no consideration of ethnic groups
• What problems could this cause?
• What might this have to do with nationalism?
• How were the Europeans’ actions ethnocentric?
• Poorly drawn borders (and Europeans’ different treatment of different ethnic groups) helped create conflicts that often led to civil war after independence (we’ll learn about these later)• Many countries ended up with
lots of official languages (South Africa has 11)
Colonial success?
• Africa used for natural resources (minerals, plantation crops), but few industrial goods produced there• Low-wage plantation and mine work
meant few Africans could afford to buy European made goods, so Euros couldn’t sell much there• Poverty, inequality, and racism
persisted
Exit Slips1. How was the Scramble for Africa an
example of New Imperialism?2. What were some causes of the Scramble?3. What were some effects? (both from the
contents of this lesson and your own critical thinking)
4. How did the Scramble advance globalization?
5. How does your new knowledge of the scramble change the way you understand yourself and your relationships to people around the globe?