Bellringer: 2/3
• Pick up the papers by the door.
• Take out your Imperialism vocab to be
checked as a HW grade.
• Get out your phone or tablet to use as a
calculator for today’s Test Replacement
Calculations.
Homework:
• Complete Imperialism in Africa/Asia map
activity + questions (if not completed in
class).
Agenda: 2/3
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1. HW Check: Vocab
2. Test Replacement Calculations
3. Notes: Intro to Imperialism
4. Map Activity: Imperialism in Africa and
Asia
1. What was the old
Imperialism?
2. Where did the new
imperialism take place?
3. What factors led to the
new Imperialism?
4. How did the Industrial
Revolution lead to the
new Imperialism?
Imperialism – when
one country
controls the
political, economic,
or cultural life of
another country.
EX: Sphere of
Influence – area in
which an outside
power claims
exclusive trade
privileges.
The Old Imperialism
was led by Spain
and Portugal during
the 1500s.
Spain and Portugal
were motivated by
the three “G’s”:
1. Gold 2. Glory
3. God
The imperialized
territory was the
New World of the
Americas.
P
S
Old Imperialism:
Spanish &
Portuguese
Empires, 1700
Spanish
Portuguese
New Conquests
B
B
F
G
I
The leaders of the
new imperialism
were Britain,
France, Italy,
Germany, and
Belgium.
The setting for the
new imperialism
was Africa and
Asia, from
approximately
1870 to 1960.
Several important factors
led to the new imperialism.
1. Militarism
Military power was
commonly used to achieve
a nation’s goals.
Resupply ports were needed
along the west and east
coasts of Africa.
Importance of colonies!
A nation with more colonies
had more power, security,
trade, money, and colonial
men for their army.
2. Industrialization
Industrialists needed
more raw materials
to supply their
factories, and
foreign markets
where they could sell
their finished
products.
Industrialists also
needed places to
invest their profits,
which would multiply
their riches.
3. Nationalism
National pride led
many nations to strive
for a world empire.
Most Europeans felt
their nationality was
superior to that of the
Africans and Asians.
Called “White Man’s
Burden”
Each country wants to be the best
and most powerful!
The English boasted, “The sun never sets on the
British Empire.”
Kaiser Wilhelm wanted Germany to have its “place
in the sun.”
“The Sun never sets on the British Empire”
French Colonial Empire
First Colonial Empire
Light Blue: 1600-1800
Second Colonial Empire
Dark Blue: 1800-1950
4. Religion
Christian missionaries wanted to help Africans and Asians,
and worked to carry the “White Man’s Burden,” which included:
1. Christianizing the
natives in order to
civilize them.
2. Bringing natives
the technological
benefits of western
civilization.
3. Teaching Africans
to read and write.
White Man’s Burden
“Take up the White Man’s Burden,
Send forth the best ye breed,
Go bind your sons to exile,
To serve your captive's need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild,
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.”
Rudyard Kipling
5. Social Darwinism
Charles Darwin
Darwin’s theories of natural
selection and survival of the
fittest were used by many to
support imperialism.
Many Europeans believed
that it was natural and right
for strong nations to conquer
weaker ones.
Defeating a “weaker” race,
according to Social Darwinism,
could only strengthen the
human race.
Imperialist desires lead to the
“Scramble for Africa”:
• European nations will race to be the first to gather
territories in Africa (and Asia as well).
– Belgium leads the charge  gets Belgian Congo (large
territory) because they were first to Africa
• Imperialism has detrimental effects on the native
populations of African states.
What is imperialism?
Imperialism – when one country controls the political, economic, or
cultural life of another country.
What were the five main causes of imperialism?
Militarism
Industrialization
Nationalism
Religion
Social
Darwinism
Map Activity: Charting
Imperialism in Africa and Asia
• Work on the maps of Africa and Asia to
figure out where European imperialism was
taking place on each continent.
• Answer the questions that go with each
map.
• This is A QUIZ GRADE. Turn it into the
drawer in the back when you are finished. It
is homework if you do not finish it in class.