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The document discusses the Age of Imperialism from 1850-1914, including the causes of imperialism like the need for resources and markets, as well as what enabled imperialism like technological advances. It also covers the forms imperialism took in different regions like Africa, and the impacts it had both positively and negatively.

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Imperialism

The document discusses the Age of Imperialism from 1850-1914, including the causes of imperialism like the need for resources and markets, as well as what enabled imperialism like technological advances. It also covers the forms imperialism took in different regions like Africa, and the impacts it had both positively and negatively.

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The Age of Imperialism

1850-1914

Imperialism: The takeover of a


country or territory by a stronger
nation with the intent of dominating
the economic, political and social life
of the people of that nation
Causes of Imperialism
 The Industrial Revolution caused a need
for resources to fuel industrial production
in Europe and the United States
 Where would these resources come from?

– Africa
– Asia
– Latin America
Causes of Imperialism
 Economic competition between European
nations; new markets to sell their goods
 The need of European nations to add colonies
to their empires as a measure of national
greatness
 Growing racism, or the belief that one race was
superior to another
– Because they were more technologically advanced,
many Europeans and Americans felt they had the
right to dominate the peoples of Asia, Africa and
Latin America
Causes of Imperialism
 Social Darwinism: the idea that those
who were fittest for survival and
success were superior to others
– Because of Social Darwinism, Europeans
felt they had the right and duty to bring
progress to other nations
 Need to Christianize the people of Asia
and Africa
 Need to civilize and “westernize”

others
What Enabled
Imperialism?
 Europeans’ technological superiority
(including the machine gun)
 Improvements in transportation to and

within Asian and African colonies


 Medical advances, such as Quinine,

which protected Europeans from


foreign diseases (malaria)
 Disunity among ethnic groups in Africa
Imperialism in 1914
Imperialism in Africa
 Berlin Conference, 1884-1885
– European nations met to lay down rules for
the division of Africa
•Any European nation could claim land
in Africa by telling the others and
showing they could control the area
•Europeans paid no attention to the
ethnic and linguistic divisions in Africa
when dividing it amongst themselves
•No African leaders attended this
meeting… Why might that be unfair??
Impact of Imperialism in Africa
 POSITIVE
– Local warfare reduced
– Improved sanitation  NEGATIVE
– Hospitals led to – Loss of land and
increased lifespan independence
– Schools led to increased – Men forced to work in
literacy European owned mines and
on European owned farms
– Economic growth
– Contempt for traditional
culture and admiration of
European culture = identity
problems
– Dividing up of Africa =
artificial boundaries divided
kinship groups and united
rivals
Forms of Imperialism
FORMS OF CHARACTERISTICS
IMPERIALISM

Colony A country or region governed


internally by a foreign power

Protectorate A country with its own internal


government but under the control of an
outside power
Sphere of Influence An area in which an outside power
claims exclusive trading privileges

Economic Imperialism Independent but less developed nations


controlled by private business interests
rather than by other government
Forms of Imperialism
Types of Management

INDIRECT CONTROL DIRECT CONTROL


Local government Foreign officials brought in to rule
officials were used No self-rule
Limited self-rule GOAL: assimilation (the process in
GOAL: to develop future which a minority group adopts the
leaders customs of the prevailing culture)
Government institutions Government institutions based only

are based on European on European styles


styles but may have local Paternalism: people governed in a
rules fatherly way where their needs are
provided for but they’re not given
rights

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