The Age of Imperialism
The New Imperialism
What is imperialism?
• The domination of one country by another.
What was the Old Imperialism?
• When Europe dominated the Americas in
the 1400s-1700s.
What was the New Imperialism?
• When Europe conquered lands in Africa and
Asia between 1871 and 1914.
Why did they want these lands?
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Natural resources
New markets to trade with
Prestige
Military bases
Humanitarian reasons – medicine,
education, spread Christianity
• Social Darwinism
Who was the first to conquer
Africa?
King Leopold II of
Belgium conquered
the Belgian Congo
What happened next?
• European powers met at the Berlin
Conference in 1884 to regulate the takeover
of Africa.
• The rush to conquer the “dark continent”
began…
How could
imperialism
help cause
WWI?
What effect did this have on Africa
and Asia?
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Loss of independence
Loss of natural resources
Railroads and postal systems were created
Some education and Christianization
Sepoy Rebellion
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