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IMPERIALISMImperialism- The cultural, economic, orpolitical domination by one country overanother

ECONOMICpromote production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services

• desire to make money• expand and control foreign trade • create new markets for products• acquire raw materials and cheap labor

– gold, copper, coal, diamonds, ivory, salt, rubber, oil, slaves

POLITICALdesire to gain power and territory in the name of one’s country • competed with other European countries to

claim territory in Africa• exercised military force with superior

weapons• gained prestige by winning colonies• boosted national pride and security

– Nationalism – strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country

RELIGIOUSDesire to convert people to Christianity so all can be saved

• missionaries followed explorers into Africa to spread European values and moral beliefs and “civilization” to Africans

• Brought Christianity to Africa in order to “save” natives

Excerpt from The White Man’s Burden

Take up the White Man’s Burden--

Send forth the best ye breed---

Go bind your sons to exile---

To serve your captives’ need…

Take up the White Man’s Burden--

The savage wars of peace---

Fill full the mouth of famine---

And bid the sickness cease…

 

-Rudyard Kipling, 1899

IDEOLOGICAL/SOCIAL DARWINISTBelief that Europeans are superior to “primitive peoples”

• Europeans felt superior to “primitive” people and cultures

• It was the “White Man’s Burden” to take care of the uncivilized

• Social Darwinism implied natural selection to human beings- only the strongest nations (aka European) would survive