Berlin Conference + Belgium Updated Lecture Video

What is imperialism?

Categorize each motive for imperialism.

Groups:

(a) Economic

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(b) Nationalism and Military

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(c) White Supremacy

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(d) Religion

• • Prestige = national pride

• method to spread European values and moral beliefs

• a tool to establish control over the people they encountered

• Cheap labor

• white people believed they were genetically superior than the people who were being colonized.

• Applying “survival of the fittest” theory to humans

• access for armies/navies to refuel and get supplies

• • loyalty and devotion to one’s nation

• • Increase trade

• convert people to Christianity

• • Control of the markets

• Sense of security

• “White man’s burden” - duty to bring civilization to the “savages.”

• • Access to natural resources

How did the Industrial Revolution allow for European countries to establish empires?

1. What do you see? 

2. What do these images represent? 

3. What message is the cartoonist trying to convey?

4. How does the message connect to the game we played last week?