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Age of Imperialism
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Background for Imperialism
• Nationalism – the strong feeling of pride in one’s country
• Imperialism – the desire to spread one’s way of life beyond the country’s borders
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Reasons for Imperialism
• European countries need raw materials for their growing industries
• Countries got prestige associated with owning many or large territories
• Missionaries wanted to spread Christianity
• Colonies created new markets for European products
• Competition for territories was strong among European nations
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Imperialism in Africa • As late as 1880, Europeans controlled
only 10 percent of the continent’s land, mostly along the coasts
• Competition for African colonies was so fierce that many counties feared war would result
• A European conference held in Berlin, Germany, the Berlin Conference, 1884 -1885, laid down the rules for the division of Africa between competing European countries
• The continent was divided with no regard to ethnic or linguistic groups - boundaries were completely arbitrary with no consideration of the inhabitants
• No African rulers were in attendance at the Berlin Conference
• By 1914 only Liberia and Ethiopia remained free of European control
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Africa Stripped of Resources • No new markets really
developed for European goods in Africa
• Europeans found immense wealth in mineral resources in Africa such as copper, tin, gold, and diamonds
• Europeans developed cash-crop plantations to grow peanuts, palm oil, cocoa, coffee, tea, sugar cane, and rubber
• The plantation crops displaced the food crops grown by farmers to feed their families
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Negative Effects of Imperialism
• Africans lost control of their land and independence• Thousands lost their lives in struggles against the
invaders
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Negative Effects of Imperialism
• Famines – a result of the shift from subsistence farming to cash crops
• The breakdown of tribal rule and culture
• The division of the continent created problems that plagued the colonial rulers during their occupation, continued long after the Europeans left, and still exist today
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Positive Effects of Imperialism
• Reduced local warfare between tribes
• Improved satiation, provided hospitals and schools
• Promoted expansion of Africans products
• Aided in the economic growth with the addition of railroads, dams, roads, telephone, and telegraph lines
• Introduced some areas to the fundamentals of government