Imperialism throughout world history

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Imperialism throughout world history
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What is Imperialism

• Types
• Features--benefits
• Featurescosts
• Points of view

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Han Dynasty
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Han Dynasty

• 200 BCE-200 CE
• Current day China, Manchuria, Korea
• Set up essential Chinese govt syst
• Civil Service
• Great Wall
• Silk Road
• Ruled by Wudi

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Han Dynasty
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Alexander the Great
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Roman Empire
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Roman Empire

• 40 BCE-300 CE
• Military
• North Africa, ME, Western Europe
• Markets, Mediterannean
• Law Codes
• Trade

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Roman Empire

• Pax Romana
• Roads, aquaducts
• Law codes
• Trade

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Roman Empire
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Byzantine Empire
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Byzantine Empire

• 300 CE-1000 CE
• Justinians code
• Cyrillic alphabet
• Eastern OrthodoxGreek and Russian
• Preserved Greek Roman Culture

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Byzantine Empire

• Architecture
• Art

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Gupta Empire
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Gupta Empire

• 300-550 CE
• Central govt
• United much of India
• Golden Age

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Gupta Empire

• Zero
• Decimal place
• Value of pi
• Arabic numerals
• Medicine-surgery, plastic surgery, vaccines

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Gupta Empire
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Islamic Empire
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Islamic Empire

• 600-1200 CE
• Muhammad
• Umayyad Abbrid
• ME, India, N Africa, Spain
• Preserved Greek Roman culture

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Islamic Empire

• Art-calligraphy, mosques
• Religious toleration
• Math-algebra, astronomy
• Education (studied diseases, hospitals)
• Moors

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Mongols
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Mongols

• China 1250-1400
• Ghengis Khan
• Large land empire
• Asia, Korea, Peria, India
• Spread of Chinese technology
• Pax Mongolia

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Mongols

• Silk roads, trade
• Marco Polo
• Russia, Kiev (250 years of isolation)
• Tribute system

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Age of Exploration
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Age of Exploration

• 1500s-1700s
• Gold, glory God
• Aztec Incas
• Triangle trade
• Mercantilism
• Encomienda system
• Cash crops

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Age of Exploration

• Triangle Trade
• Columbian Exchange
• Language
• Rich Poor
• Afrikaners, Slave trade, racism

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Napoleon
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Napoleon

• Early 1800s
• Econ-prices, industry
• Eduation
• Legal code (equality, religious tolerance)
• Spread of Enlightenment ideas

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Austria-Hungary
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Austria-Hungary

• 1800-1900s
• Balkans

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Ottoman Empire
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Ottoman Empire

• Middle East

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Japanese Empire
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Japanese Empire

• Meiji Restoration
• Need for resources

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New versus Old Imperialism

• Economic system
• Where?
• products

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Causes of New Imperialism

• Social Darwinism
• Nationalism
• White Mans Burden
• Industrial Revolution
• Military bases
• Missionaries

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Africa

• Conference of Berlin
• Why not earlier
• Resources?
• Borders
• Boer War

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Asia

• India
• Sepoy rebellion
• Raj
• India National Congress
• China
• Opium Wars
• Treaty of Nanking
• Spheres of Influence
• Boxer rebellion

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British Empire
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WWI WWII

• How did imperialism lead to WWI?
• What happened after WWI?
• What intl policy did Hitler, Mussolini and Japan
  pursue?
• What happened to imperialism after WWII
• What problems/challenges remain (legacies)
• Still exists today?