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Unit 3 (Motives for Imperialism (Exploratory (Europeans were curious about…

- - - - No Competition, they have no one else to buy things from, they will only be able to buy our goods, AND NO ONE CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT
- - - - Leopold:
      - Claimed the congo
      - Carved it out for himself personally, not for Belgium
      - Did this to get rich
      - Interested in rubber and he wants ivory from the tusks of elephants
      - Was interested because he knew he could get a lot of money
  - - - Charles Darwin investigated genetics to find out why animals and plants develop the way they do.
      - Through his research, the new scientific theory of Evolution was developed and expanded.
      - He wrote On the Origin of the Species in 1859, and the educated and curious middle and upper classes made it a best seller.
  - - - He brought the country together
        
        Women go to fight
- - - - 1895 Italy invaded Ethiopia
      - 1896 Ethiopia defeated Italy in Battle of Adwa
      - Only African nation to defeat European invader
      - I think the Ethiopians won the battle because of their numbers, the women that helped, firepower, and the courage that brought the people to work together. I believe because of this the Ethiopians were able to defeat the Italians.
  - - - Berlin Conference (1884)
        
        European countries set rules for the division of Africa
        
        A country’s reputation depends on how much land they control so European countries claim EVERYTHING.
  - - - The Belgian King Leopold II is allowed to claim the Congo Free State at the Berlin Conference.
      - The Congo becomes his personal property.
      - Motto: “Work and Progress”
      - 30 million people
      - 80x the size of Belgium itself
      - Rich in rubber and ivory
      - The people of the Congo were treated as slaves
        
        The pressure was so hard they only made rubber
        
        If the demand was not reached they would cut of the hands of children and the soldiers would use it as currency
- - - - Success comes from being the most fit for the environment and more likely to pass on genetic material than less successful creatures.
        
        In nature, less successful genetic traits die out because those creatures don’t survive to have babies and pass on their genetic traits.
  - - - less successful societies (not Europeans) must be made up of inferior genetic traits and the whole society will eventually die out…. SO… It must be ok for white people to take what they want from non white people because all those people of color are going to die out anyway from inferior genetics.
        
        successful creatures must be genetically superior to less successful creatures and successful societies (European societies) must be made up of genetically superior people (white people).