Pre-19c European Trade with Africa

Economic Competition Source for Raw Materials Markets for Finished Goods European Nationalism Missionary Impulse Military & Naval Bases European Motives For Colonization Places to Dump Unwanted/ Excess Popul. Industrial Revolution Humanitarian Reasons European Racism “White Man’s Burden” Social Darwinism

European Explorers in Africa 19c  Europeans Map the Interior of Africa

Where Is Dr. Livingstone? Dr. David Livingstone Doctor Livingstone, I Presume? Sir Henry Morton Stanley

European Explorations in mid-19c: “The Scramble for Africa”

Africa in the 1880s

Africa in 1914

Social Darwinism

Justified to the strong the destruction of the weak In nature Darwin theorized that it is survival of the fittest. So the Europeans theorized why not in Society? Therefore the rich are superior to the poor and Europe with its Superior Technology is Superior to Africa.

The “White Man’s Burden” Rudyard Kipling

The “White Man’s Burden”?

5-8 Million Victims! (50% of Popul.) It is blood-curdling to see them (the soldiers) returning with the hands of the slain, and to find the hands of young children amongst the bigger ones evidencing their bravery...The rubber from this district has cost hundreds of lives, and the scenes I have witnessed, while unable to help the oppressed, have been almost enough to make me wish I were dead... This rubber traffic is steeped in blood, and if the natives were to rise and sweep every white person on the Upper Congo into eternity, there would still be left a fearful balance to their credit. -- Belgian Official

Berlin Conference of

Dutch Landing in 1652

Shaka Zulu (1785 – 1828)

Shaka Zulu Part of the Zulu tribe Warriors defeated neighboring tribes and many Europeans Create large centralized state that disintegrated after his death

The Great Trek, Afrikaners

Diamond Mines Raw Diamonds

The Boer War: The Boers The British

The Struggle for South Africa After diamonds found foreigners rush to South Africa Boers try to keep these foreigners out of politics and a rebellion forms Boers blame neighboring British for the Rebellion and start one of the first modern wars England wins in the end and the Boer’s land becomes part of England's South Africa

A Future British Prime Minister British Boer War Correspondent, Winston Churchill

Cecil Rhodes ( ) “The Colossus of Rhodes”

Think…. What was the Europeans mode of thinking? Do you think we are guilty of the same line of reasoning? Why or why not? What was the most interesting piece of information? Do you think Imperialism was worth it?