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IMPERIALISM, LUKAS DIEZ LASA - Coggle Diagram
IMPERIALISM
The causes
Rise of finance capitalism
New markets outside Europe
Trade
International prestige
Strategic locations
European population growth
Supremacy of white people
The consequences of imperialism
Political
Became the scene of political rivalry
The political tension became a reason of WW1
Economic
Single crop and extraction
Indigenous artisan crafts could not complete
Handmade products were lost
World economy was organised unequally
Infrastructure for exporting and exporting products
Ports
Railways
Demographic
The pressure of population growth
Lot of emigration
Popultion growth because of medical advanteges from coloniser
Social and Cultural
Colonisers imposed Western Culture
Indigenous culture was relegated
Social and racial segregation
The Colonial empires
Colonised Africa
United States
Japan
Largest colonial empires
France
Great Britain
Other industrialised countries
Between 1870-1914
The Occupation and administration of the Colonies
Colonising powers wanted
Political control
Economic control
Territorial control
Three stages
Occupation by conquest
Use of Military advantage
Political and administrative control
Executed by samll groups of Europeans
Military members were in charge of maintaining order
Organisation of the colonial economy
Each colony had a value
Exploitation colonies
Had an economic value
Governed by a white minority
Settler colonies
Socio-economic value
Emigrants from coloniser country
Certain governmental autonomy
Protectorates
Areas of strategic interest
Indigenous population government
Under supervision
The Franco-Spanish protectorate in Morocco
Spain used to avoid being displaced from Africa
Empires at 1914
Brtish empire
Strategic locations
Gibraltar
Malta
Ceylon
The Maldives
French empire
Large areas in north-west Africa
Some territories at America
LUKAS DIEZ LASA
