The Sun Never Sets On The British Empire WHAT IS IMPERIALISM Empire Building One culture commonly called the MOTHER COUNTRY forces itself upon a group of foreign people and the foreign culture is suppressed ID: 530850
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Aim: What is imperialism, and how was it motivated by the Industrial Revolution and Social Darwinism? Slide2
“The Sun Never Sets On The British Empire”Slide3
WHAT IS IMPERIALISM? Empire Building.
One culture (commonly called the MOTHER COUNTRY) forces itself upon a group of foreign people, and the foreign culture is suppressed
Two kinds of imperialism:
COLONIES (settlements)
SPHERES OF INFLUENCE (economic control, but local people still have political control)Slide4
Scramble for
Africa – 1885-1914
VERY few European colonies established there – African tribes are independent
To
gain raw materials for factories
Europeans are ABLE to colonize in the late
19
th
century because:
Better medicines
Better guns
Europeans cooperated among themselves and divided Africa
up at the
Berlin Conference, 1884-1885
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Design Your Own Country: Part II
Individually: read over your country plan. Identify your top 5 non-
negotiables (circle them) – what cannot be sacrificed? Slide7
Now, at your table: you have to combine your countries into one country. Your goal is sacrifice as little as possible so as MUCH of YOUR identity remains in this new country.
(Also, to wipe out what the other cultures that have been created and to replace it with your own)Slide8
Nationalism
Patriotism on STEROIDS
The
personal IDENTIFICATION with a nation
The belief that one’s nation is the BEST IN THE WORLD
Culture, history, and current status of a country serve as evidence of a country being the best in the world What’s the connection between… Nationalism and the Industrial Revolution? Nationalism and Imperialism?Slide9
The more a country INDUSTRIALIZES, the bigger the country’s economy GROWS, and the WEALTHIER it becomes, which leads to more
competition between European
nationsThe bigger a country’s EMPIRE, the better that country is, which leads to more competition between European nationsSlide10
18th and 19th
Century Nationalism
Belief
that citizenship in a state should be limited to one
ethnic
/cultural group Great Britain would be characteristically BRITISH, France would be characteristically FRENCH, etc. Belief that a country’s culture is evidence that it is better than all other countries. European belief that Europeans are superior to and more advanced than Africans and Asians, so they have a “right” to colonize in Africa and AsiaSlide11
Motives/Causes for The New Imperialism (Empire Building 1880-1914)
Natural resources (IR)
Social Darwinism
European competition – the bigger your empire, the better you are