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Twitter account created for this class:@43123uwin

http://43123uwin.wordpress.com/

Website for the class

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The Scramble for Africa

Imperialism Motivations Methods Scramble for Africa

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1880s American political cartoon

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Imperialism Imperial Territorial acquisition

Extension of power/influence European imperialism

i. c. 1492-1870 Ii. c. 1870-1914

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Africa in 1880

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Africa in 1914

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Motivations for Empire

1. Trade and resources

2. National pride

3. Religious/“civilizing” factor

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Ivory trade

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Leopold II

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Motivations for Empire

1. Trade and resources

2. National pride

3. Religious/“civilizing” factor

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“Our task is to strip the Herero of his heritage and nationalist characteristics and gradually submerge him, along with the other natives, into a single coloured working class”

-German official

Herero of German Southwest Africa (Namibia)

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Queen Victoria presents bible to an African leader

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Methods Technology Medicine -quinine Civil service class

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1865 Gatling Gun

Zulu Warrior c.1879

Technology

1884 Maxim Gun

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Battle of Adwa March 1896

Resistance

Technology

Ethiopia & Italy

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Scramble for Africa

1880: Europe ruled 10% of Africa

1914: Europe ruled 99% of Africa

Liberia & Ethiopia

Europe – slave trade

Leopold II (Belgium)

1871-1900: Britain added 66 million Africans

France added 26 million Africans

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Berlin West Africa Conference 1884-85• “first come, first served”

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Atrocities in Belgian Congo: amputations

Congo Free State1885-1908

From personal to national Belgian colony

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Recommended reading.

Leddy has one copy: DT 28 .P34 1991