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IMPERIALISM AND COLONIAL EMPIRES, image, image, image, image, image, image…

- - - - competed to guarantee
        
        political prestige
        
        raw materials
    - - emigration
        
        33 million European left
        
        between 1871 and 1911
    - - raw materials
      - consumer markets
    - - missions
        
        religious
        
        cientifical
      - Europe
        
        civilise the rest of the world
    - - imperialist state on which a colony depended
      - all powers: political, military, economic, social and cultural
- - - - travelled to remote parts of Africa
      - fought against slavery
      - A Scottish missionary and explorer
    - - British Empire
        
        large belt of colonies from Egypt to Cape Town
        
        other powers wanted to prevent
      - France and Portugal
        
        Portugal
        
        large inland areas
        
        France
        
        Sahara and its bordering countries
        
        establish corridors from the Atlantic coast of Africa to the Indian Ocean coast of Africa.
      - 1885, Germany
      - divide Africa
        
        between European powers
  - - - smuggled the drug
        
        large amounts of money
        
        British
      - Chinese were defeated
      - Treaty of Nanking (1842)
        
        port of Hong Kong became a British royal colony
    - - militaristic tradition
        
        weapons technology
        
        penetration into neighbouring foreign markets
      - lacked certain raw material
        
        hegemony in the Pacific
        
        coal and iron
      - late 19th and early 20th centuries
    - - cede control of
        
        its mines
        
        areas of importance
        
        divided between the colonists
      - opened ports
        
        important coastal cities
        
        Canton and Shanghai
        
        international trade
      - independent country
        
        effects of imperialist pressures from
        
        Europe and the USA
        
        ruled by its emperor and ancient institutions
    - - Chinese opposition to the policies imposed by foreigns
      - expel the colonists
    - - France took control of Indochina
      - Great Britain of Malaysia
      - ‘the jewel in the Crown’
      - Dutch replaced Portugal’s former rule
      - colonised Indian Peninsula
  - - - European empires expanded
      - mother country exploited the colonies
    - - Asia
        
        ancient deep-rooted cultures and religions
      - America
        
        undergone colonisation
        
        most countries were independent
      - Africa
        
        almost completely unexplored
  - - - reserved the right to military intervention
        
        fought Spain
        
        cruel war with Philippines
        
        Panama separated Colombia
      - left Cuba
    - - its economic and strategic interests
      - military interventions
      - The Hawaiian Islands, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, several Pacific archipelagos, the Panama Canal and Cuba
- - - - British in India
    - - France and Spain
    - - not intervene in politics
      - controlled economy
  - - - own institutions
  - - - controlled by Belgians
    - - controlled by French
    - - mother country controlled everything
- - - - produced cheap raw materials
    - - manufactured and sold industrial products
      - added value
  - - - based on racial discrimination
        
        against indigenous peoples
      - breakdown of the traditional tribal society
  - - - interests of the occupying powers
  - - - not everybody enjoyed benefits
    - - law
      - administration
      - medicine