Analyzing Imperial Motives
Open-Shaft Mining S. Africa
• Economic- Exploitation of natural
resources
• Ideological- Europeans treating
Africans as inferior
A Methodist Sunday School, Angola
• Religious- Christian
Values & Beliefs
• Ideological- Teaching
European Customs &
Beliefs.
Germans Taking Possession of
Cameroon
• Political- Flag =
national identity
• Exploratory- new,
foreign lands
Quote from Henry Stanley, 1882
• Ideological“civilize”
Africa
Africans Brining Ivory to Wagons,
South Africa
• Economic- Ivory
Trade = big $$$
Map of Central Africa
• Exploratoryinterest in
unexplored
territories.
Ad for Pears Soap
• Ideological- belief that
people needed to be
cleansed through
European Civilization.
• Economic- Its an Ad.
Pupil Nurses in Burma, 1888
• Ideologicalteaching European
values
• Religiouseducating people of
other cultures
Chinese being
savaged by
European powers
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Political
Economic
Religious
Ideological
Bagged
Ground Nuts,
West Africa
• Economic
French Capture Saigon, Vietnam
• Political-military force
British Lipton Tea Ad.
• Economic
• Politicalgaining
prestige from
trade.
The Rhodes Colossus
• Political- From Cairo
to Cape Town
• Exploratory
Epitaph from
Livingstone
• Religious
• Exploratory
Suez Canal, Egypt 1870
• Economic
• Political
• Analyze the Consequences of New
Imperialism for European nations and those
people conquered by Europeans. 1-2
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• British claims that they will build an empire
from Cairo to Cape town .
• Establishing a school in the Congo to help
spread Christianity
• Imprisoning tribal leaders who refuse to
adopt European customs.
• Exploitation of diamond mines in South
Africa.
• “We wish to bring European values to
corners that have yet to be discovered”.
• “Europe should supply the people of Africa
with all the technology to help make
Africans more civilized”.
• U.S. construction of the Panama Canal in
1904
• “The Chinese are heathens! They must
accept Christianity in order to be saved.
• “If Africans were capable of governing
themselves they would not have been so
easily conquered by Europeans”.
• When it comes to imperialism, only the
strongest will survive.
• Colonies are a good source for raw
materials, labor and trade.
• Germany must acquire more colonies in
order to be as powerful as Great Britain.
• “The White Man’s Burden” is to teach
Africans how to be more productive in their
country.
• Ridding Africa of the slave trade is the
priority of missionaries.
• We wish to make contact with unknown
cultures and people, investigate the lands
where they live and steal it from them