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What is the age of imperialism?
-Height of European powers
-Africa was conquered
-Empire-building competitive.
What were European jobs in Africa that had conflicting interests in the Age of Imperialism?
-Missionaries
-civil administrators
-settlers
-soldiers
-profiteers
What two inventions allowed allowed Europeans to conquer Africa so easily in the late 1800s/early 1900’s?
-machine guns
-better medicine
What was the “Scramble for Africa” in the Age of Imperialism?
Africa was the last continent open for colonization so many European super powers fought over it for the technological advantages.
What was the Berlin Conference about?
European countries met to agree who Africa would be conquered, they wanted to avoid fighting each other, Africa was not present.
What was Social Darwinism?
some groups of people where biologically superior.
What is paternalism and how does it relate to the Age of Imperialism?
Superior people made to help the inferior because they could not help themselves.
(Westerners justifying African Conquest.)
What was the Eugenie’s Movement about?
-to control human reproduction so only desired features would survive
What were some negative consequences of the Age of Imperialism?
-Economic exploitation
-Problematic borders were drawn
-Indirect rule led to broker class
-Civilizing mission extinguishing native tradition
-settlers, adventures, solders, missionaries moved into lands– move abusive then government
- Racism and racist policies
-harm to animals: over hunting, environmental exploitation
-horrific violence
What were some positives of the Age of Imperialism?
-Technology was spread
-Morally bad traditions where stopped
-less Trible violence
-Civilization mission spread Important enlightenment ideas
-Rule of law introduced
-Private property introduced.
-Western Language spread.
-Uniting people in areas
-Religion spread
-Debate
What is Canada’s independence story and what is it’s statues with the British Empire?
Wanting more power to make their on decisions and fearing the US military after the Civil war, still technically under British Monarch.
Germany by 1914
-Germany became a country in 1871
-Franco-Prussian war, Prussia defeated France
-Monarchy, worked with the Reichstag
-Protested catholic
-huge industrial power
France by 1914
-Democratic-Republic
-Indochina
-lost the Franco-Prussian war
-catholic
-Paris # city
-tried assimilating natives
Great Britain in 1914
-1.Constitutional Monarchy
2.Parliament,
3.house of lords
4.house of commons
-Pax Britannica
-dominions- commonwealth
-protested catholic, Anglican episcopalian church of England
What are the 3 C’s?
- commerce
- Christianity
- civilization
