1. The Age of Imperialism

3. The Race for Africa 
Why?  Huge natural resources like diamonds, gold, cocoa, rubber, copper, tin, etc.
How could they do it?  Maxim gun (first automatic weapon), quinine, transportation, communication, African disunity 
Berlin Conference ( )-  Europeans carve up Africa
By 1914 the only free countries left were Ethiopia and Liberia

4. Why was colonization in Asia possible?
Europeans’ more advanced weaponry and resources
Transportation- railways, steamboats (1869 Suez Canal)
Communication- telegraph
Rivalry among European nations

5. Dutch in Java
17th and 18th centuries the Dutch slowly controlled the islands in Indonesia through a series of alliances with local princes and interfrence in local warfare

6. British in India
Origins: British East India Company and port cities of Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta
Sepoys- Indian soldiers
Battle of Plassey key battle to British control of India

8. Early Colonial Society in Java and India
Colonizers orginally tried to import European customs but later adapted these to local lifestyles

9. Social Reform in the Colonies
Shift from loose control of British East India Company to more direct control
Utilitarians and evangelicals pushed to westernize the Indians (end practice of sati)
Ram Mohun Roy

10. Social Relations within the colonies
Rising African and Asian middle class
Segregation between the colonizers and the local population
White racial supremacy

11. What was the effect on the economies of Africa and Asia?
Economies were reorganized to meet the demands of the European
Locals lost farming land and the ability to self-sustain because Europeans developing cash crop plantations

12. Settler Colonies
Europeans migrated with the intention of permanent residence
Canada, United States, Argentina, Chile
South Africa
Boer War ( ) between the British and the Boers (Dutch farmers)

13. Settlement in the Pacific Rim
New Zealand (Maori)
Hawaii (annexed by the U.S. in 1898)