1. Happy Lunar New Year! Feburary 8th
**Fun fact: Today marks the first day of the 1st month in the Lunar calendar. The lunar calendar is a calendar that follows the cycles of the moon instead of the sun like our Gerogrian calendar. Many countries in Eastern Asia like China, Vietnam, Korea, etc. hold extensive celebration to welcome this new year. This year is the year of the Fire Monkey.
Happy Lunar New Year! Feburary 8th
TO DO:
If your table has a sticky note – peel off & throw away
In “Notes” section of your Imperialism packet, copy question & answer:
Why would industrialized European countries want to control other parts of the world?

2. Turn to page 12 in blue booklet
Motives for Imperialism

3. Economics Desire to make money $$ To expand & control foreign trade
To create new markets for products
To acquire raw materials and cheap labor
To compete for investments and resources
To export industrial technology & transportation methods

4. Military To claim territory to create bases to protect the empire
To exercise military force
To use as a refuel and resupply area
To boost national pride and security
From a children’s book of the time, called, “ABC for Baby Patriots”

5. Political Based on a nation’s desire to gain power
To compete with other European countries
To expand territory
To gain prestige by winning colonies
To boost national pride

6. Ideological Social Darwinism White Man’s Burden
Cultural belief that the white race was superior
Other cultures were “primitive”
Europeans job is to “civilized” peoples in other parts of the world

7. “The White Man’s Burden”
Excerpt of the poem,
“The White Man’s Burden”
By Rudyard Kipling
February 1899
Eurocentric view of the world European duty to go out and civilize/help non-European people  European culture is superior
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go send your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child
Take up the White Man’s burden…
Description of non-European peoples:
“captives”  like slaves/animals
“flutter folk”  crazy irrational people “wild”  like animals
“new-caught”  like animals
“sullen peoples”  moody like children
“half devil & half child”

8. Religion The desire to spread Christianity
To protect European missionaries in other lands
To spread European values and moral beliefs
To educate people of other cultures
To end slave trade in Africa

9. Exploratory The desire to explore “unknown” or uncharted territory
To conduct scientific research
To conduct medical searches for the causes and treatments of disease to go on an adventure
To investigate unknown cultures

10. Levels of Control
Direct Rule = sending officials from European country to run the country
Ex. India
India initially started out as indirect rules, but local leaders and militias rebelled, which lead to direct rule of India by the British.

11. Indirect Rule = governing the country through local rulers
Levels of Control
Indirect Rule = governing the country through local rulers
Ex. Vietnam
When the French imperialized Vietnam, the Vietnamese emperors were allowed to continued to hold their title if they listened to everything the French told them to do. Emperors that refused would be exiled and quickly replaced.

12. Colonies . Protectorates . Sphere of Influence
Levels of Control:
3 types of Imperialism
MOST CONTROL
Colonies Protectorates Sphere of Influence
LEAST CONTROL

13. Colonies Direct rule by one country over another
Replace local elites with officials from the mother country
Britain was the largest empire – red is all of its colonies
Britain’s American colonies
are an example

14. Protectorates
A country or region that is controlled by a more powerful country
Markets are only open to that country
Korea became a protectorate of Japan

15. Spheres of Influence Economically confined by a dominant nation
Territory keeps its own government
China up to 1914

16. A political cartoonist’s view of spheres of influence in China
BRITAIN
U.S.A.
RUSSIA