Chapter 33: The Building of Global Empires

1. Chapter 33: The Building of Global Empires AP World History: Kimberly Zerbst

2. The Good Stuff (essential knowledge) • Justification for Imperialism • Direct/Indirect Rule • New patterns of global trade • Single resourcing • Gold and diamonds in S. Africa • British Empire • British in India • Belgian Congo

3. Justification for Imperialism • White man’s burden • Social Darwinism

4. How do you rule a colony? Direct Rule Indirect Rule • France • Install a government • Colony is “annexed” into the mother country’s culture • Language • Religion • culture • England • Set up as a protectorate or establish a local/regional government • Colony keeps it’s own culture • Language of govt. still the mother country

5. Checking For Understanding • On your whiteboard answer the following: • The colony uses native language and the governor is an educated person from that colony – name the colonizing country • The colony is strictly Roman Catholic, the mayor of your province is French – name the colonizing country • You aren’t allowed to speak your native language or educate your children in your own religion – name the colonizing country • You have to pay taxes to the colonizing country but you’ve never seen someone from that country in your village- name the colonizing country

6. New Patterns of Global Trade

7. 1900 Empire Building

8. Gold and Diamonds in S. Africa • Diamonds – 1867 • Gold – 1886 • Profitability calculations • Apartheid’s beginnings

9. Checking for Understanding • On your whiteboard answer each question • Biggest geographical colonial empire? • Most colonies • Most important trade route? • What two canals fundamentally changed trade? • Who built/maintained them? • Which countries emerge during this time period as economic/trading powerhouses?

10. http://www.friesian.com/british.htm

11. British in India – The Raj • EIC takes over 1757 • Battle of Plassey • 1857 Indian Mutiny (sepoy rebellion) • EIC abolished 1858 – crown assumes control • 1898 Indian nationalist movement • 1947 Indian independence • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yXKbd5IDzU • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLE542NoWC8--

12. Belgian Congo • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpx5hy5TejE

13. In return for "one piece of cloth per month to each of the undersigned chiefs, besides present of cloth in hand, they promised to freely of their own accord, for themselves and their heirs and successors for ever...give up to the said Association [set up by Leopold] the sovereignty and all sovereign and governing rights to all their territories...and to assist by labour or otherwise, any works, improvements or expeditions which the said Association shall cause at any time to be carried out in any part of these territories... All roads and waterways running through this country, the right of collecting tolls on the same, and all game, fishing, mining and forest rights, are to be the absolute property of the said Association." Contract between Congolese Chiefs and King Leopold I of Belgium 1885

14. Checking for Understanding Using this primary source, Afternoon Tea for the Working Classes: 1850 Write a thesis statement and brief essay that explains: What does this primary source tell us about trade in nineteenth century Great Britain?

15. The Good Stuff (essential knowledge) • Justification for Imperialism • Direct/Indirect Rule • New patterns of global trade • Single resourcing • Gold and diamonds in S. Africa • British Empire • British in India • Belgian Congo