Bell Ringer What point do you think the cartoonist is

trying to make in the following cartoon?“The sun never sets on the British Empire”

Advantages and Disadvantages

Types of Rule Direct Rule

(France) Colonies Indirect Rule

Great Britain Protectorate

Less cost/ less involvement Sphere of influence

Exclusivity

The White Man’s Burden Read the Rudyard Kipling poem and

answer the three questions in complete sentences. This WILL be turned in.

Things to Know David Livingstone Henry Stanley Boers Boer War Berlin Conference

Mr. Livingstone I Presume David Livingstone- Explorer who felt that

spreading Christianity and opening Africa’s interior would end the slave trade.

Henry Stanley- journalist who found Livingstone.

The Boer War Boers- Dutch farmers who fought the

Zulu tribe. Boer Wars- Wars fought between the

Dutch and the British over diamonds and gold.

Africa: Berlin Conference Tensions among the European powers

seeking African colonies led to the Berlin West Africa Conference (1884-1885)

Berlin Conference- Conference devising rules for the

colonization of Africa.

Later Problems The arbitrary boundaries of the Berlin

Conference did not take into consideration the natural divisions of the African people (religion, culture, language, ethnicity, etc)

The invention of rigid grouping of different groups and the establishment of artificial tribal boundaries became one of the greatest obstacles to nation building and stability in much of Africa during the 20th Century

King Leopold’s GhostEstablished the Congo Free State in the 1870s.

Belgian Congo

Political Cartoons

Quotes “Imprisoning 60

women and putting them in chains, where all but five died of starvation.”

This man himself, when I visited him in Boma goal, in March, 1901, said that more than 100 women and children had died of starvation at his hands, but that the responsibility was due to his superiors’ orders and neglect.”

Obedience??