Scramble for Africa
British statesman, and businessman after whom Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) was named.
Who is Cecil Rhodes?
The perversion of Darwin's evolutionary theory applied to human society that provided a moral justification for the exploitation of Europeans
What is Social Darwinism?
A system of governance used by the British and French to control parts of their colonial empires, particularly in Africa and Asia, through pre-existing indigenous power structures. These dependencies were often called "protectorates" .
What is indirect control?
White is an artificial construct because the
definition of white changes due to these two things
What is time and geography?
Shared beliefs and a way of life create a common bond.
What is Culture?.
By 1914, these two countries in Africa remained independent
What is Liberia and Ethiopia?
Constructed or created for a political purpose, race is a ______________ _______________
What is a political construction?
This system of control centralizes all control into European hands. With the goal of assimilation and foreign officials brought in to rule, all institutions are based on European models
What is direct control?
People with whom we share some elements of are part of this
What is a reference group?
A shared past connects people as a group
What is (a) history?
This Belgian monarch claimed the Congo region of central Africa, initiating competition with France for that territory and inflicting on its peoples unparalleled acts of cruelty.
Who is King Leopold II?
The concept of race was created as a classification of human beings with this purpose
What is giving power to white people and legitimising the dominance of white people over non-white people?
A country or a territory with its own internal government but under the control of an outside power
What is a protectorate?
This economic system thrived in the imperial period as Europeans exploited natural resources to promote exports and limit imports. Essentially, imperialist nations extracted natural resources from colonies and sold them back to colonial subjects as manufactured goods.
What is mercantilism?
A shared land gives people a sense of unity
What is territory?
This missionary from Scotland, traveled with a group of Africans deep into central Africa to promote Christianity
Who is David Livingstone?
In 1866, Frederick Farrar lectured on the “Aptitude
of Races” which he divided into these 3 groups
What are savage, semi-civilised and civilised?
An area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges
What is sphere of influence?
This type of nationalism occurs when people who are not similar are united under a single nation/empire.
What is dis-unifying?
Describes a central, sovereign government that controls a given territory.
What is "the state"?
This major trading route controlled by the British and operated by the French, was a crucial strategic access point to Asia.
What is the Suez Canal?
A framework of thinking that sought to sterilize people considered “genetically unfit. This ideology encouraged the reproduction of people with “good” genes and discouraged those with “bad” genes
What is Eugenics?
A country or a territory governed internally by a foreign power
This type of nationalism occurs when the people being united are similar in ethnicity, culture, religion, history and language.
What is unifying?
A sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are
relatively similar.
What is a "nation-state"?