Vocabulary I
This is a policy where one nation, state, or empire seeks to control or exploit the land, resources, and even the people of a foreign territory.
What is Imperialism?
This cause of European imperialism in Africa is related to the desire to not fall behind one's rivals, politically, or economically. It is also a term to describe a belief that your own ways of living are better (superior) than how other people live.
What is Nationalism?
A period in history where European imperialist nations rapidly colonized most of the continent of Africa.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
This invention allowed for Europeans to travel beyond the coastlines of Africa into the interior of the continent more easily. This made colonizing and extracting resources much easier.
What is the steam engine? (steamboat/trains)
An intense belief that your nation, your people, and your ways of living are better than those with different ways of living. In some instances, this can result in the desire to see other people adopt your ways of living (culture).
What is Nationalism?
This meeting between European imperialists helped to assure that rapid colonization of Africa would not lead to war breaking out between each other.
What is the Berlin Conference of 1884?
These are the materials that are found within nature, and below ground that can be used to produce useful products, like clothing, metals, or fuel for energy production.
What are natural resources / raw materials?
This is the term to describe people who travel to other countries with the goal of converting indigenous (native) people to a particular religion.
What is a missionary?
A meeting held between European imperialists in order to create an agreed upon set of rules for how to further colonize Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference of 1884
This event in history led Europeans to have some major technological advantages over the people of Africa, making it easier for colonization to take place.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This term refers to the concept of trade, or how a society is organized to generate money and how that money is divided up among members of a society.
What is economic?
A term, rooted in both racism and nationalism, that is used to describe people who are "uncivilized."
What is a barbarian?
This means to deny someone rights, or to take away their power or their political freedom. This often results in a prolonged cruel treatment of a people.
What is oppression?
This prolonged form of extreme oppression put many parts of Africa at a disadvantage when attempting to resist European colonization.
What is the African slave trade?
This term refers to groups of people, and their ways of life. In other words, it is referring to societies and culture.
What is social?
Although over 90% of the continent of Africa would eventually be colonized by European imperialist nations, these two nations managed to resist colonization.
What are Ethiopia and Liberia?
A period of rapid growth in the use of machines to mass produce goods. This led to many technological advancements in (but not limited to) weaponry, transportation, and medicine.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Similar to the concept of nationalism, this is a worldview that holds that some races are inferior to other races. Or, that one's own race is superior to other races.
What is racism?
This term refers to the ways in which a society organizes itself in order to make decisions and to establish order within society.
What is political?
Cecil Rhodes, infamous imperialist, known for his brutal treatment of Africans who were forced to work for him in his diamond mines, was from this European nation.
What is Great Britain?