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Transcript of WHTWO: 27.1 THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
INSTRUCTIONS
START PREP
27.1 THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW
TERMS & NAMES
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THEN START READING SECTION
WORLD HISTORY IIMR. HOOD30 OCTOBER 2013
27.1 THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
WORLD HISTORY IIMR. HOOD`S NOTES30 OCTOBER 2013
MAIN IDEA
EMPIRE BUILDING.
IGNORING THE CLAIMS OF AFRICAN ETHNIC GROUPS, KINGDOMS, AND CITY-STATES, EUROPEANS ESTABLISHED COLONIES.
WHY IT MATTERS NOW
AFRICAN NATIONS CONTINUE TO FEEL THE EFECTS OF THE COLONIAL PRESENCE MORE THAN 100 YEARS LATER.
INTRODUCTION
INDUSTRIALIZATION SPURRED IMPERIALISM
IMPERIALISM IS…
…A POLICY IN WHICH A STRONG
NATION…
…SEEKS TO DOMINATE WEAKER
COUNTRIES…
… POLITICALLY, SOCIALLY AND
ECONOMICALLY
MANY EUROPEAN NATIONS LOOKED TO
AFRICA
EUROPEAN NATIONS COMPETED FOR
RESOURCES
AND NEW MARKETS
OBJECTIVE 1DESCRIBE AFRICA BEFORE EUROPEAN DOMINANCE.
BEFORE IMPERIALISM
AFRICA WAS DIVIDED
HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT GROUPS
+ 1000s OF LANGUAGES
RANGED FROM LARGE EMPIRES TO INDENDENT
VILLAGES
EUROPEANS HAD TRIED TO COME TO AFRICA
BEFORE
EUROPEANS FOUND IT VIRTUALLY
IMPOSSIBLE
DANGEROUS GEOGRAPHY
DEADLY DISEASES
BUT SOME DID MANAGE TO EXPLORE
AFRICA
AND SOME WANTED TO OWN LAND IN
AFRICA
INCLUDING BELGIUM`S KING
LEOPOLD
LEOPOLD TOOK CONGO`S
RESOURCES
LEOPOLD KILLED 10 MILLION CONGOLESE
SOON OTHER EUROPEAN NATIONS WERE CLAIMING PARTS
OF AFRICA
OBJECTIVE 2SUMMARIZE THE MOTIVES OF EUROPEAN COLONIZERS AND THE FACTORS THAT ALLOWED THEM TO CONTROL AFRICA.
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION GAVE
EUROPEAN NATIONS…
…A REASON TO ADD LANDS TO THEIR
CONTROL
RAW MATERIALS + NEW MARKETS
BUT THERE WERE OTHER
FORCES DRIVING IMPERIALISM
EUROPEAN NATIONS HAD GREAT SENSE OF
NATIONAL PRIDE
AN EMPIRE MEASURED NATIONAL
GREATNESS
MANY EUROPEANS THOUGHT THEY WERE BETTER THAN OTHER
PEOPLES
A BELIEF IN EUROPEAN
SUPERIORITY
THE BELIEF THAT ONE RACE IS
SUPERIOR TO OTHERS IS CALLED RACISM
THE ATTITUDE WAS A REFLECTION OF SOCIAL
DARWINISM
THOSE FITTEST FOR SURVIVAL ENJOYED WEALTH
AND SUCCESS
NON-EUROPEANS WERE CONSIDERED LOWER
SCALE
EUROPEANS BELIEVED THEY HAD THE RIGHT AND THE
DUTY TO…
…BRING RESULTS OF THEIR PROGRESS TO OTHER
COUNTRIES
EUROPEANS TRIED TO “WESTERNIZE” THE PEOPLES OF
FOREIGN LANDS
ALSO, EUROPEANS HAD TECHNOLOGICAL
SUPERIORITY
INVENTION OF STEAM ENGINE BOOSTED TRAVEL +
COMMUNICATION
EUROPEANS PERFECTED DRUGS TO
PREVENT DISEASE
THE SCRAMBLE BEGAN IN 1880
NO EUROPEANM POWER WANTED TO BE LEFT OUT OF
THE RACE
COMPETION WAS FIERCE AND EUROPEANS FEARED
WAR
BERLIN CONFERENCE WAS CALLED
14 EUROPEAN NATIONS MET
EUROPEAN NATIONS CARVED
UP AFRICA
WITH NO CONSIDERATION FOR
THE AFRICANS
OBJECTIVE 3IDENTIFY THREE GROUPS THAT CLASHED IN SOUTH AFRICA.
SOUTH AFRICA
DEMONSTRATED IMPACT OF IMPERIALISM
AFRICANS, DUTCH AND BRITISH CLASHED OVER LAND +
RESOURCES
DISPUTE OVER CONTROL OF LANDS FOR ABOUT 100
YEARS
TO PROTECT THEMSELVES, AFRICANS CREATED LARGE
CENTRALIZED STATE
AFRICAN ZULUS LED BY SHAKA,
HELD KINGDOM TOGETHER
BUT HIS SUCCESSORS WERE UNABLE TO KEEP
THE LAND
ZULU`S LOST THEIR KINGDOM, FELL UNDER
BRITISH CONTROL
FIRST EUROPEAN SETTLERS IN SOUTH AFRICA HAD BEEN THE
DUTCH
AFTER BRITISH TOOK POWER THEY CLASHED WITH THE
DUTCH
LED TO THE BOER WAR
BRITAIN VS THE DUTCH
THE BRITISH WERE VICTORIOUS
NOW CONTROLLED SOUTH AFRICA
CONCLUSION
EUROPEANS CHANGED THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE THEY
CONQUERED
POLITICALLY, SOCIALLY +
E C O N O M I C A L L Y
OBJECTIVE 1DESCRIBE AFRICA BEFORE EUROPEAN
DOMINANCE.
OBJECTIVE 2SUMMARIZE THE
MOTIVES OF EUROPEAN COLONIZERS AND THE
FACTORS THAT ALLOWED THEM TO CONTROL AFRICA.
OBJECTIVE 3IDENTIFY THREE
GROUPS THAT CLASHED IN
SOUTH AFRICA.