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IMPERIALISM AND COLONIAL EMPIRES
IMPERIALISM
CAUSES OF IMPERIALISM
Industrial development
raw materials were required
new consumers markets
stablished all over the world
Rivalry between industrialised countries
compete for
raw materials
secure trade routes
obtain political prestige
Intense population growth
migration from Europe
1871-1911
33 millions
destinies
United States
Canada
Brazil
Argentina
ideological and cultural factors
Europeans wanted to civilise the world
racial supperiority
colonial expansion
scientific missions
religious missions
A POLITICAL DOCTRINE
during the last third of the 19th century
European states
expanded
colonize territories
all over the world
lots of territories
controlled by Europe
subjected to imperial states
COLONIAL MEPIRES IN 1914
British Empire
the most extensive
almost the quarter of the world
345 million inhbaitants
COLONIAL TERRITORIES
COLONIALISM
development
imperialist expansion
European countries
Inland Africa
unexplored
Asia
ancient cultures
enormous countries
India
China
America
most of it already independent
system
mother country exploted the colonies
according to its interests
COLONISTAION OF AFRICA
Berlin West Africa Conference
divide Africa among European countries
Germany
organized the conference in 1885
wanted to expand
The British Empire
wanted to stablish a belt of colonies
from Egypt to Cape town
France
controlled the Sahara
and the bordering contries
corridor from the Atlantic to the Indian
Portugal
large inland areas
corridor from the Atlantic to the Indian
COLONISATION OF ASIA
British Empire
Malaysia
colonised India
the "jewel of the crown"
France
Indochina
the Dutch
modern day Indonesia
China
Independent country
ruled by an emperor
pressure from Europe and the USA
cede control of its mines
divide important areas for trade between the colonists
open ports
international trade
First Opium War (1839–1842)
the British
make a lot of money with the opium
the Chinese rebelled
defeated by the British
the treaty of Nanking was signed
1842
Hong Kong became a British royal colony
Boxer rebellion 1899.1901
opposition to the policies
imposed by the foreign powers
they wanted to expel the colonists
Japan
imperial expansion
late 19th century - 20th century
needed raw materials
expand through the Pacific
for the industries
techniques
military tradition
weapons technology
market
AMERICA
THE UNITED STATES
military interventions
defend its interests
economics
strategic
territories annexed
Puerto Rico
Cuba
left in 1902
right to military intervention
Hawaiian islands
the Philippines
war against the rebels
the Panama canal
encouraged to separate from Colombia
Pacific archipielagos
TYPES OF COLONIAL GOVERNMENTS
Colonies
mother country
controls
conomy
politic
culture
weal local power
in Africa
in the Congo
by the Belgians
In Indochina
by the French
Protectorates
mother country's intervention
foreign relationships
economy
not in politic
Morocco
by France and Spain
India
by the British
Dominios
Territories of the British Empire
new European population
great autonomy
it's own institutions
examples
Canada
New Zealand
Australia
CONSEQUENCES OF IMPERIALISM
inequalities in the production of goods
colonies
produce cheap raw materialsw
were exploited
mother country
manufactures
add a higher value to the products
sold them more expensive
advances in industrialised countries
not everybody joined the benefits
racial discrimination
medicine
law
administration
Artificial bounders
based on
interests of the occupying countryn
ot local factors
conflicts in the future
with the tribes or ethnic groups
separate them
join them together
specially in Africa
Violence
atrocities against the people
altered social structures
of the indigenous
new social order
discrimination
the breakdown of the traditional tribal society