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Imperialism

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Imperialism

Imperialism: The policy by a stronger nationto attempt to create an empire by dominating

weaker nations economically, politically,culturally, or militarily.

A coaling station for steamships, Cape Town, South Africa

How Did Imperialism Begin?

The IndustrialRevolution

• The IndustrialRevolution beganin Great Britainin the mid-18th

century

• Britain’sadvantages

• The spread ofindustrialization

Economic Motives

Industrializednations sought:

• Raw materials• Natural resources• A cheap labor

supply• New

marketplaces formanufacturedgoods

TechnologicalAdvances

• The steam engine• Better transportation• Increased exploration• Improvements in

communication

The steamboat Herald(with mounted machine guns)on the Zambezi river in Africa

One of the first steam engines

Britishtroopsfightingforces inBenin in1897

The Maxim Gun

Exploration

• David Livingstone

• Mapping the “DarkContinent”

David Livingstone

Ideological Motives

• A desire to “civilize” non-Europeansalso spurred the development ofimperialism

• Social Darwinism

Darwin’s handwritten cover page forThe Origin of Species

Herbert Spencer

“The White Man’s Burden”

Take up the White Man’sburden—

Send forth the best yebreed—

Go, bind your sons to exile

To serve your captives’ need;

To wait, in heavy harness,

On fluttered folk and wild—

Your new-caught sullen peoples,

Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man'sburden—

In patience to abide,

To veil the threat of terror

And check the show of pride;

By open speech and simple,

An hundred times madeplain,

To seek another's profit

And work another's gain.

By Rudyard Kipling