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IMPERIALISM AND COLONIAL EMPIRES - Coggle Diagram
IMPERIALISM AND COLONIAL EMPIRES
Imperialism
It started in the 19th century
Start of the Second Industrial Revolution
European powers
Controlled a lot of territories
Cause of imperialism
Rivalry between industrialised countries
Compeet to guarantee supply
Intense population growth
Overseas emigration
33 million Europeans left the continent
Industrial development
Need for new raw materials
Ideological and cultural factors
Europe wanted to civilise the rest of the world
Colonial territories
Imperialist expansion led to the development of colonialism
Mother countries exploited the colonies
European empires expanded
Africa was unexeplored
In Asia
Ancient deep-rooted cultures an d religions
Islam
Colonisation of Africa
In 1885
Germany organised the Berlin West Africa Conference
Africa was going to be divided
Germany
Feared to loose his opportunity
British Empire
Wanted to establish a large belt
From Egypt to Cape Town
France
Controlled the Sahara
Portugal
Controlled large inland areas
Colonisation of Asia
The Indian Peninsula colonised by the British
France took Indichina
Great Britain Malaysia
The Dutch Indonesioa
China was still independent
Felt the effects of imperialism
Cede control of its mines
Allow areas of importance to be divided between colonists
The British took advange of the Chinese authorities
Smugled the drug to make money
First Opium war
The British won
Hong Kong became British
The hegemony of the United States in America
It began numerous military interventions
Defended its economic and strategic interests
Anexed countries
Pacific archipelagos
Panama Canal
Puerto Rico
Cuba
Philipines
Hawai Islands
Left Cuba in 1902
Reserved military interventions when appropriate
Fought Spain
Encouradged Panama to separate from Colombia
Types of colonial gobernment
Protectorates
The mother country only controlled economy
In Asia
Dominios
Territories occupied by the British Empire
Occupied entirely by a new population
Had a great autonomy
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Colonies
Allowed the mother country to controll all the country
Political
Cultural
Economic
In Africa
Consequences of imperialism
Inequalities in the global production of goods
Producing cheap raw materials
The mother countries sold them at a higher price
Violence against people
The genocide in the Belgian Congo
Altered the social structure of indigenous
In Africa
Artificial borders were created
Divided tribes and ethnic groups
Advances in industrialised countries
Law
Administration
Medicine
Not everyone enjoyed this benefits
