Remember…money over everything!!!

French Revolution/Napoleon has caused trouble in Europe Treaty of Versailles: meeting to establish peace Peace= time to do things other than fight Explorers in Africa: bring back information Industrial Revolution: production of goods in factories. Requires raw goods.

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!

Write definition from yesterday in margin Superior race dominates inferior race Supported racist ideologies Survival of the (economic) fittest: Superior Europeans dominating inferior Africans is inevitable

Countries need to be economically stable Industrial Revolution= machines “Well oiled machine” Palm oil Textile factories need cotton Change 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.

Explorers return with info about Africa Godless, backward, primitive Europeans thought their way was best way, needed to save the ‘inferior’ Africans (SD) Not just change in beliefs, but change in total structure Divisions among groups

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 = $$$$

King Leopold II of Belgium Hired explorer to explore (duh) Congo River area, set up trade Claimed he wanted to bring light to dark places by civilizing Africans What did he really want? Remember those three words…. Money! Cong0 has rubber trees

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 supply Villages had quotas (amounts they had to produce) No quota? Mutilation, torture, starvation, death Population dropped from ~20 million to ~8.5 million people in 20 years

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 country WARNING: The next two slides show images of what happened.

1884 Berlin Conference Recognized Leopold’s actions in Congo as legitimate Laid out guidelines for partitioning (dividing) the rest of Africa Whoever got there first had dibs No Africans invited or involved (SD)

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