The New Imperialism

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The New Imperialism

• Europe Takes on the Third World

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Methods of Colonial Control

• Colonies (used in Africa, particularly by the
  French, in India, and in areas of the previous
  Ottoman Empire)
• Protectorates (used in British Africa)
• Spheres of Influence (used in China, Afghanistan,
  Iran)

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Industrialization and Imperialism

• The Industrial Revolutions Provided
• The Means of Taking Over Colonial Areas
• The Means of Controlling Colonial Areas
• The Motives for Taking Over Colonial Areas

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Motives

• Related to Industrialization
• New Sources of Raw Materials
• Cheap Labor
• New Industrial Markets
• New Areas of Investment
• Strategic Considerations (geo-political factors)
• National Prestige

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Imperialism Justifications

• White Mans Burden
• Rudyard Kipling
• Social Darwinian theory
• Christianization

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Areas of Imperial Activity

• The Partition of Africa
• Divided between 1870 and 1910
• England (methods of control the colony and the
  protectorate)
• Egypt
• Sudan
• South Africa
• Nigeria
• Kenya

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Areas continued

• The Partition of Africa
• France
• West Africa
• Morocco
• Tunisia
• Algeria
• Method of control the colony

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Areas of control contd

• The Partition of Africa
• Germany
• Cameroons
• Southwest Africa
• German East Africa
• Otto von Bismarck Germanys map of Africa lies
  on the continent of Europe

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The Partition of Asia

• The Middle East
• Decline of the Ottoman Empire (North Africa lost
  to England, France and Italy, which took Libya)
• Iran England and Russia divide into spheres of
  influence in 1907
• Afghanistan becomes a British sphere of
  influence in 1907
• India becomes a royal colony in 1858 the jewel
  in Britains Crown

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Partition of Asia contd

• East Asia China
• The Canton System
• The Opium Trade
• First Opium War, 1839-1842
• Treaty of Nanking 5 Treaty Ports opened Britain
  gains
• Hong Kong
• Second Opium War, 1856-1860
• Additional Treaty Ports opened

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The Division of China into Economic Spheres
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Asia contd

• Chinese Japanese War, 1894-1895
• Chinese lose
• China divided into spheres of influence by the
• European countries
• The Open Door Policy defined by the United States

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Impact of Imperialism

• Europeanization
• Nationalism
• World War I