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European motivations for colonisation - Coggle Diagram
European motivations for colonisation
misonary activity
Victorians wanted to 'civilise' people through Christianity
many missionary groups were operating in the 1800s full of many forms of Christianity but all had a similar goal of converting the world to Christianity
Livingstone - went into Africa as a missionary doctor 1841 then went back again 1858 to open a path for commerce and Christian faith
military and naval bases
many naval bases were set up to help protect trade
the more bases they had the quicker they could defend the trade routs
European racism
social darwinism
the theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature.
white mans burden
the duty to impose western culture on colonies coming from the belef they are civilised and the people they colinised weren't
industrial revolution
sorce of raw materials
precious jewels
markets for finished goods
shipping finished goods back to where the raw material were from
places to dump unwanted/ excess population
less population is less homeless, poor and unwanted so the country could focus its resources elsewhere
less overpopulation and diseases
poor and prisoners were often shipped off
European nationalism
it shows a countries power and status
influenced there role in the world
soc and economic reasons
it made lots of money for the investors of empires
make new trade routs for there country