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IMPERIALISM - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Began establishing colonies before
        
        Strategic locations
        
        Malta
        
        Ceylon
        
        Maldives
      - During 20th century
        
        Maritime hegemony allowed to extend it's area of influence
        
        America
        
        Asia
        
        Africa
        
        Oceania
        
        Most important possesions
        
        India
        
        Australia
      - 1877
        
        Queen Victoria of England crowned Empress of India
        
        Expansion accelerated
        
        Occupied almost East Africa
    - - Large areas in north-west Africa
      - Madagascar island
      - South-east America
      - French New Guinea
      - Some islands of the Caribbean
    - - Portugal
        
        Angola
        
        Mozanbique
      - Belgium
        
        Congo
      - Germany
        
        Namibia
        
        Togo
        
        Cameroon
        
        Tanzania
      - Spain
        
        North Morocco
        
        Part of Sahara
        
        Equatorial Guinea
    - - Extended in Latin America
        
        Panama
        
        Cuba
        
        Puerto Rico
      - Didn't allowed European countries colonising there
      - Pacific ocean
        
        Hawaii
        
        Philippines
    - - Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905)
        
        To control Manchuria
      - Korea
    - - Siberia
      - Central Asia
- - - - Military advantage
    - - Organised the administration
      - Military controlled indigenous rebellions
    - - Exploitation of natural resources
      - Colonies bought products manufactured by colonising countries
  - - - Economic value
      - White people exploited the others
    - - Socio-economic value
      - Majority of emigrants from colonising countries
      - Canada, Australia and New Zealand
    - - Areas of strategic interest
      - Colonies own government and administration
      - Morocco protected by Spain and France
- - - - Developed countries looked for new mwterials
    - - If you had more lands you were more prestige
      - Strategic locations
    - - High leves of unemployement
      - Migrations to colonies
    - - Geographic expeditions
      - Discover new
        
        Plants
        
        Animals
        
        Minerals
    - - Bring European culture and Christian values
      - Indigenous were considered less civilsed