imperialism

Summary - Though colonial empires dated back hundreds of years, the rapid drive for colonies at the end of the nineteenth century led Europe to gain political control of most of Asia and Africa. From 1880-1914 European nations scrambled to divide among themselves the entire continent of Africa, except Liberia and Ethiopia. Once European nations carved up empires, they quickly set up colonial governments to rule them and systems to make them profitable. European imperialism brought modern inventions and techniques of the Industrial Revolution to the non-European world, but to peoples in Africa and Asia Western expansion represented a profoundly disruptive attack on their society.

Blog Assignment - Using your notes on imperialistic motives, write a blog response regarding imperialism and be sure to include the following:






Imperialism is the policy of extending the rule of authority of an empire or nation over forign countries. Countries that took into the imperialistic ways were Germany, France, portugal, Great Britan and Italy. All of the tribes from these countries believed that thaey could take over Africa becuase they believed in Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism is a 19th century theroy, " survival of the fittest." Imperialism had many negative effects. One being the Boer war. This war was fought between the British and the Boer Republics over who was going to gain control over the terriotry of Africa. Due to having more technology, the Boer Republics defeated the Britsh. Another nation was the Zulu nation. Unlike the Britsh they had strong military skills. Some Imperialism motives were economic, political and religious. Economic motives included the desire to make money and expand and control foreign trade. Political motives were based on a natins desire to gain power and to compete with other european countries. And Religious motives had to do with the desire to spread Christianity.