Bellwork- What do you see? What do you think it represents? Write 4-5 sentences

Remember…money over everything!!!

Imperialism in Africa

French Revolution/Napoleon has caused trouble in Europe

Treaty of Versailles: meeting to establish peace

Peace= time to do things other than fightExplorers in Africa: bring back informationIndustrial Revolution: production of goods in

factories. Requires raw goods.

Where are we now? 1815

RallyRobin: Turn to the person you sit with. If no one is beside you, work with the group behind you.

Each person names one cause of/ motivational factor of imperialism

Go back and forth for 20 seconds naming every reason you can!

What motivates imperialism?

Write definition from yesterday in marginSuperior race dominates inferior raceSupported racist ideologiesSurvival of the (economic) fittest: Superior

Europeans dominating inferior Africans is inevitable

Social Darwinism

Economic Motivation- Stacks on StacksCountries need to be economically stableIndustrial Revolution= machines“Well oiled machine”Palm oilTextile factories need cottonChange in world supply of cotton because of

_______?

New supply in _______Control the land, control the raw material,

control the MONEY

Industrialization= more goods. Too many goods! Goods need to be consumed.

Can people without money buy things?Increase wages, free enslaved workers, more

people can buy things.

Cash rules everything around me

Look again!

Explorers return with info about AfricaGodless, backward, primitiveEuropeans thought their way was best way,

needed to save the ‘inferior’ Africans (SD)Not just change in beliefs, but change in total

structureDivisions among groups

Religious and Humanitarian Motivations

Nationalism: More countries= more power, more prestige

Several events in Europe (War between France and Prussia, creation of German country, France is embarrassed, Germany wants to gain power(

France and Britain conflict regarding Suez Canal: gov’t needs military in strategic spots

Need to supply coal, goods, to people and naval ships

Countries in control of areas that produced raw goods = $$$$

All adds up to Political/Military Motivation

Suez Canal

King Leopold II of BelgiumHired explorer to explore (duh) Congo River

area, set up tradeClaimed he wanted to bring light to dark

places by civilizing AfricansWhat did he really want? Remember those

three words….Money!Cong0 has rubber trees

Leopold and the Congo

1890’s soap advertisement

King Leopold II owned a company which controlled Congo

Raw material (rubber) paid big $$Slice open a tree/vine, sap comes out.

Destroys plant.Demand ^^, Leopold forced natives to

deliver the supplyVillages had quotas (amounts they had to

produce)No quota? Mutilation, torture, starvation,

deathPopulation dropped from ~20 million to ~8.5

million people in 20 years

Horrors in the Belgian Congo

Just one example of exploitation of natives for money

Photographic evidence ended up in Europe, people demanded change (kind of)

Leopold gave up company to countryWARNING: The next two slides show images

of what happened.

Congo, continued.

1884 Berlin ConferenceRecognized Leopold’s actions in Congo as

legitimateLaid out guidelines for partitioning (dividing)

the rest of AfricaWhoever got there first had dibsNo Africans invited or involved (SD)

The Scramble Begins

Scramble Simulation

How did it happen?