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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??