1. New Imperialism CHY4U Unit 3
In your groups, identify your questions and conclusions for each slide. (whiteboard)

2. Trade, 1870s
Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis and Anthony Esler, World History: Connections to Today – Teachers Edition
(Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001), 617.

3. Imperial Powers
Ibid., 643.

4. “Scramble for Africa”, by 1914
Note * = outbreaks of anticolonial resistance
The small inset map on the bottom right shows the vast majority of Africa was independent before 1850.
Ibid., 623.

5. Latin America
Ibid., 660.

6. Spreading Education
The caption says: “This photograph, dated 1903, was taken in a German missionary school in East Africa. The pictures on the wall are of Kaiser William II and his wife, Augusta.”
Ibid., 625.

7. Indigenous Response
Letter from Chief Machemba of the Yao to German Officer Herman von Wissman, late 1800s:
“If it be friendship that you desire, then I am ready for it…but to be your subject, that I cannot be.…I do not fall at your feet, for you are God’s creature just as I am.”
Ibid., 621.

8. Von Treitschke*
“All over the globe today we see the peoples of Europe creating a mighty aristocracy of the white races. Those who take no share in this great rivalry will play a pitiable part in time to come. The colonizing impulse has become a vital question for a great nation….We [Germany] must, and will, take our share in the domination of the world by white races.”
Ibid., 619. *Von Treitschke was a German historian.