1. Aim: How did the Industrial Revolution lead to Imperialism?
Do Now: Read the quotes below. Which do you agree with more and why?
Write an answer  Turn & Talk
“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.”

3. I What is Imperialism?
A) Imperialism (also called colonization) is the domination by one country of another country or region. Countries or regions controlled by another country are called colonies. B) The Roman Empire and the Mongol Empire were two of history's greatest early imperial powers. While imperialism has always existed, the motives or causes have changed over time.

4. II Causes for Earlier Imperialism
1500s-1700s (14th-18th century)
Empires conquered other civilizations with the economic goals of
finding precious metals like silver and gold
finding a direct sources of Asian spices that had become too expensive due to Muslim control of trade routes

5. III Causes of the New Imperialism
Economic
Political
Social
1. Factories needed natural resources such as rubber & petroleum
2. Mercantilism/ New markets to sell factory goods
3. Bankers wanted to invest profits
4. Colonies gave Europe’s growing population places to move to
Steam powered ships needed bases around the world to take on supplies.
Nationalism.
1. Missionaries believed they should spread Christianity
2. Social Darwinism.
Technological
New technologies (gatling gun) and medicines (quinine)!

6. Causes of the New Imperialism Continued…
Social Darwinism applied the theory of evolution to human societies.
UNLIKE evolution, Social Darwinism is pseudoscience (there is NO scientific evidence for it).
People were classified into races with only white Europeans viewed as “civilized” and therefore, should naturally dominate other races.
The “white man’s burden” was the belief that Europeans needed to spread their civilization through imperialism to bring civilization to the “inferior” races.

7. Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899
This famous poem was a response to the American take over of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War.
Take up the White Man's burden-- Send forth the best ye breed-- Go bind 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…
Rudyard Kipling was British, born in India.

8. Causes of the New Imperialism Continued: Technological
1. Europeans had powerful armies and navies
2. Europeans had access to new technologies from the Industrial Revolution such as steamships & the telegraph
3. New medicines such as quinine to fight malaria
4. New weaponry such as machine guns
In 1861, Doctor Richard Gatling patented the Gatling Gun, a six-barreled weapon capable of firing 200 rounds per minute.

9. Key Vocabulary
Colony Colonization Gatling Gun Imperialism Rudyard Kipling’s White Man’s Burden Mercantilism New Imperialism Quinine Social Darwinism