1. AUGUST 31, 2017 Get out notebook and espn highlighters
Imperialism notes
HW: Color imperialism maps

2. Colonialism vs. imperialism
IMPERIALISM - the ideology driving the practice of colonialism that aims to build up large empires.
COLONIALISM - practice of extending control over other territories, forming colonies, moving your people there and exploiting them. Colonies remain separate entities

4. Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
Portuguese and Spanish
46 degree West longitude
Why does Brazil speak Portuguese: atch?v=0-Q8IkKgTmA

5. Colombian Exchange
Exchange of goods from the Old World to the New World and vice versa
Trade of plants, animals, people, and disease

7. Impact of Columbian Exchange
Altered biodiversity
Disease kills millions
Increased population
Increased agriculture in the New World
Triangular Trade and the Atlantic Slave Trade

8. Columbian Exchange Crash Course

9. Which of these two passages do you find to be most true?
“Every empire seeks as its imperialistic mission not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
“The truth is that imperialism was never idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.”

10. Social Forces Driving Imperialism
Social Darwinism: “survival of the fittest” applied to human society.
Racism: the belief one race is superior to another

11. Economic Forces driving Imperialism
Raw materials
New markets for industrialized goods

13. Political Forces behind Imperialism
National pride and the desire to acquire more land for your country to demonstrate power
Competition between nations

14. Reasons Europeans were able to Imperialize
More advanced technology
Maxim gun
Steam ship
Railroads
Advancements in medicine
Africa was internally divided

15. Scramble for Africa Berlin Conference: 1884-1885 conference
Europeans divided African nations
No African leaders present
No regard for ethnic conflicts

16. Africa before and after the Berlin Conference

17. Europeans exploited natural resources
Economic aftermath
Europeans exploited natural resources
Established plantations of cash crops

18. Capitalist economic system
Legacy of Imperialism
Nation-state model
Capitalist economic system
Disruption of traditional culture and ethnic groups
Cash crop agriculture
Infrastructure