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IMPERIALISM - Coggle Diagram
IMPERIALISM
Old Colonies
Lack of political infrastructure (e.g. in Africa or Asia)
Further colonial developments made
Concept of old colonialism
Exploitation
Gaining powers by settling on foreign lands
Producing raw materials and agrarian products
Dramatic increase of imperial powers
Great Britain (first place)
France
USA
Germany
Japan
Belgium
Plan to completely divide Africa among European powers
Early Colonialism
15th century Spain and Portugal: first nations to start process of expansion
Exploited indigenous people through violence and taking their belongings to fulfill economic needs
Native lands were given to European settlers
Indigenous people taken into slavery
Slave trade due to incapability of some indigenous people to work in hard labour
Spanish and Portuguese empires decline -> new imperialism is born
Climax of the age of empire (1870 - end of WWI)
German imperialism 1884 - end of WWI
Japanese imperialism in China and Korea 1895 - end of WWI
Age of decolonization marked by the end of "Great War"
Going West
Took place in America (early 19th century)
Studies of new territory on American soil
Expand the country (Thomas Jefferson)
Building an empire