New Imperialism
This King of the Bangwato people set out on a diplomacy mission/journey to protect his land and people in 1895 and avoid complete subjugation of Europeans.
King Khama III
884: Thirteen European nations met to discuss dividing up Africa and the rules for which colonial powers could claim lands - this was called---
Berlin Conference 1884
Pro Imperialists used this scientific term to justify their actions
Social Darwinism
What was the one Southeast Asian region to remain independent and free from imperialism?
Siam?
This imperial power controlled India, Burma and Malaya
Great Britain
As a result of their King's diplomacy mission, the following EUropean power declared the Bangwato lands as a protectorate ______
Great Britain
Joseph Conrad’s novel describing the harsh rules and treatment of imperial powers in the Cong
Heart of Darkness
Battle of Omdurman
British vs Sudanese Egyptians
•Egyptian Sudanese tried to resist the British
•It was the bloodiest battle of the period
•10,000 Sudanese were killed
Which one African Nation remained free of Imperialism
Ethiopia
Who controlled indochina
The French
A practice in which a country increases its power by gaining control over other areas of the world
Imperialism
Leaders of France, Germany, and Great Britain used patriotic, humanitarian, and religious appeals to justify imperialism - list one pro-imperialists who did this from CHapter
Rudyard Kiplin, WHite Man's Burden
Cecil Rhodes- pro imperialist
•1652 this company had set up trade centers in Cape Town Africa
The Dutch East India Company
This congress challenged white dominance in South Africa.
•the African National Congress (ANC)
Who controlled the East Indies Islands in Pacific like Java etc?
The Dutch
3 Causes for the New Imperialism
1. Industrial revolution- shift economies to they are focused on natural resources to make capital
2. Nationalist movements which brought about unhealthy competition between new Nation-States.
3. Discovery of treatment for Malaria.
4. Advanced weapons
In Rudyard Kipling's Poem, describe 1. what is 'the burden', and 2. who is 'burdened'? 3. irony/contradiction of the burden?
1. The burden is having to "civilize the savage beasts" according to Kipling
2. THe white man is burdenned
3. THe irony is that the white man is describing subjugating, killing, destroying culture and lives, stealing from the Africans, and taking all their resources to make money aa a burden, as if it is them who is burdened in the situation.
Who was involved in and what was Result of the First Boer War
British vs Dutch. The Dutch won.
•Mining Magnate (wealthy/powerful businessman) in South Africa --He dreamed of British imperialism from “Cape to Cairo”
Cecil Rhodes
What territory did the US control and why?
Philipines, B/c treaty in Spanish American War 1898
in the 1840s Europeans discovered a new compound to fight Malaria called____
Quinine
In chapter 1.2 Scramble for Africa, the queen, who spoke up and caused British governors to treat the royal family and the Asante traditions with greater respect. is named____
Yaa Asantewaa
Result of the Second Boer War
British won and took control of all South Africa
King of the Zulu Empire
King Shaka
These were the shared strategies of both Siam and Ethiopia to remain free
1. played European powers against one another
-protected citizens’ private property
-gave up a little territory
- opened to foreign trade