IMPERIALISM
Causes
Scientific progress
Growth of population
Supremacy of white people
International prestige
It was their duty to bring European culture and Christian values to indigenous societies
For europeans countries colonies were a symbol of prestige
Important to control strategic locations
Because of the growth of population many people emigrated to the colonies to look for work.
Discover new plants, animals and minerals
Colonial empires
The European powers, the United States and Japan colonised most of Africa, Asia and Oceania. However, the largest colonial empires belonged to France and Great Britain
Consequences of Imperialism
Social and Cultural
Political
Demographic
Economic
Political rivalry between the colonising powers for dominion of territories
Imposed western culture
Social and Racial Segregation
The pressure of population growth in colonising
The population in the colonies increased because of the decrease in mortality.
Ports and railways
Indigenous artisan crafts
World economy unequally
Single crop and extraction
Left the indigenous without their traditional resources to survive
They disapeared because they couldn't compete to the colonisers
Were importing and exporting product
developing or developed
Occupation and administrarion
Three stages
Specific value
Political and administrative control
Organisation of the colonial empire
Occupation by conquest
Setler colonies
Proectorates
Explotation colonies
The colonising power used its military advantage
Was executed by a small group of Europeans
Involved the exploitation of the natural resources and the indigenous population
Were areas of strategic interst
Had a socio-economy value
Had economy value