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

• a tool to establish control over the people they encountered

• Sense of security

• method to spread European values and moral beliefs

• convert people to Christianity

• access for armies/navies to refuel and get supplies

• Applying “survival of the fittest” theory to humans

• • Increase trade

• • loyalty and devotion to one’s nation

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

• • Access to natural resources

• Cheap labor

• • Control of the markets

• • Prestige = national pride

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

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?