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Imperialism

Imperialism. Essential Questions. What enabled Great Britain to lead all other Western powers in establishing imperial rule around the globe in the 1800s? How did industrialism make it much easier for major industrial powers to impose their rule throughout the world?

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Imperialism

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  1. Imperialism

  2. Essential Questions • What enabled Great Britain to lead all other Western powers in establishing imperial rule around the globe in the 1800s? • How did industrialism make it much easier for major industrial powers to impose their rule throughout the world? • How did industrialism add to the motives some European nations felt to carve out vast imperial domains for themselves?

  3. Essential Questions (continued) • What major effects did colonial rule have on the societies ruled by the European imperial powers in the 1800s? Were those effects all negative, or were some of them positive as well? • Why did colonized societies respond to Western imperialism in such different ways? Which ways were the most successful for those societies? • What is the legacy of imperialism, both within the imperialist nations and within the societies they came to control?

  4. Imperialism: The policy by a stronger nation to attempt to create an empire by dominating weaker nations economically, politically, culturally, or militarily.

  5. How Did Imperialism Begin? A coaling station for steamships, Cape Town, South Africa

  6. The Industrial Revolution • The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain in the mid-18th century • Britain’s advantages • The spread of industrialization

  7. Economic Motives Industrialized nations sought: • Raw materials • Natural resources • A cheap labor supply • New marketplaces for manufactured goods

  8. Technological Advances • The steam engine • Better transportation • Increased exploration • Improvements in communication One of the first steam engines The steamboat Herald (with mounted machine guns) on the Zambezi river in Africa

  9. The Maxim Gun British troops fighting forces in Benin in 1897

  10. Exploration • David Livingstone • Mapping the “Dark Continent” David Livingstone

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