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- - - - it felt the effects of imperialism from Europe and USA
        
        ceded control of its mines
        
        divided areas of foreign trade between the colonists
        
        opened up ports in important coastal cities to international trade
      - ruled by its emperor and ancient institutions
    - - Chinese rebelled against this in the First Opium War
        
        defeated by the British
  - - - to decide how Africa would be divided amongst the European powers
    - - other powers wanted to prevent this
  - - - mother country didn't intervene in politics
      - only economic matters and foreign relations
    - - Territories of the British Empire, occupied almost entirely by a new population of European origin, with great autonomy and their own institutions
    - - weak local power allowed mother countries to control the country
- - - - The British controlled almost a quarter of the world
      - with a population of 345 million inhabitants
  - - - competed with each other to guarantee a supply of raw materials, to secure trade routes and to obtain political prestige
    - - led to more overseas emigration
      - 1871-1911, 33 million Europeans left the continent
        
        went to places like United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina...
    - - required new raw materials found far away from Europe
      - the development of European industrial production needed new consumer markets established
    - - Europe wanted to ‘civilise’ the rest of the world
      - religious missions were organised to evangelise the colonised
  - - - mother countries manufactured industrial products of higher value
      - colonies produced cheap raw materials
    - - against people
        
        leading to genocides
      - a new social order was imposed
        
        based on racial discrimination against the indigenous peoples by the colonist
    - - dividing tribes and ethnic groups
      - resulted in conflicts in the future
    - - such as medicine, law and administration
      - not everybody enjoyed these benefits
        
        due to racial discrimination
- - - - German chancellor, Bismarck created system of alliances
        
        Bismarckian system
        
        Second system (1879–1882)
        
        Italy joined the agreement, forming the Triple Alliance
        
        League of the Three Emperors revived by Bismarck
        
        Dual Alliance
        
        Bismarck made a bilateral agreement with Austria-Hungary
        
        Third system (1887)
        
        Triple Alliance reinforced by Bismarck
        
        signed the Reinsurance Treaty with the Russian tsar
        
        guaranteed Russian neutrality in the event of an attack by France
        
        Mediterranean Agreements with Great Britain, Italy, Austria-Hungary and Spain
        
        First system (1872)
        
        League of the Three Emperors
        
        alliance between Austro-Hungarian, German, Russian empires
    - - a period of prosperity and optimism
    - - two opposing diplomatic blocs formed in Europe
        
        Triple Alliance
        
        Triple Entente
      - armed peace
        
        tension between the two blocs increased,
        each bloc invested in its military,
        
        1905-1911 France and Germany
        
        brink of war over control of Morocco
        
        1912 and 1913,Balkan countries VS Ottoman Empire
        
        2 wars
      - the powers of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente clashed in World War I