Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
IMPERIALISM, image, image, image, image, image - Coggle Diagram
IMPERIALISM
the causes
For european conutries
colonies were a symbol of international prestig
to control strategic locations
rise of finance capitalism
Imperial expansion
growth of the population in Europe
machinery caused high levels of unemployment
Scientific progress
geographic expeditions to unknown areas
supremacy of white people
the occupation and administration of the colonies
during imperialism
the colonising powers wanted complete political, economic and territorial contro
three stages
Occupation by conquest
colonising power used its military advantage over the peoples
Political and administrative control
was executed by a small group of Europeans
Organisation of the colonial economy
involved the exploitation of the natural resources
specific value
Exploitation colonies
had economic value
indigenous population
governed by a white minority
Settler colonies
had a socio-economic value
majority of the population of colonies
were emigrants
Protectorates
were areas of strategic interest
indigenous population
maintained its own government and administration
the consequences of imperalism
Economic
colonists
displaced the indigenous tribes from their land
acquired rights to extract mineral resources
imposition of a single crop and extraction economy
Indigenous artisan crafts
could not compete with the colonists
colonising country dominated the colonial market
Infrastructure
focused on importing and exporting products.
world economy
was organised unequally
the exploitation of valuable resources
Political
colonies
their strategic and economic value
1870-914
climate of tension and competition that developed in colonial areas
Demographic
pressure of population growth
in colonising countries
The population
colonies increased because of the decrease in mortality rates
Social and cultural
colonising countries
imposed Western culture
indigenous people
Social and racial segregation
developed
the colonists considered themselves superior
the colonial empires
Africa, Asia and Oceania
were colonised by
the United States
European powers
Japan
largest colonial empires
belonged to France and Great Britain
competed with each other to gain control of colonies in Africa and Asia.
1870-1914.
other industrialised countries began building their colonial empires
