Section 1:The Roots of Western Imperialism

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CHAPTER 17
The Age of Imperialism
Section 1 The Roots of Western
Imperialism Section 2 European Claims in North
Africa Section 3 European Claims in
Sub-Saharan Africa Section 4 Expansion in Asia
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Israel and the Occupied Territories
European Claims in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bell Ringer 17.3 What events led to competition
among Western nations for land in South Africa?
What events led to the creation of the Union of
South Africa? Complete the flowchart
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Flowchart (cont.)
Flowchart
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West Africa
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• Formerly dealt in slaves
• Late 19th century turned to trading palm oil,
  feathers, ivory, and rubber

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France wouldfight Samory Tourefor fifteen years
for control of West Africa.
Britain would fightthe Ashanti kingdomfor the
territory theywould name theGold Coast.
Liberia would bethe only state to
remainindependent.
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Stanley Livingston
1869 reporter Henry Stanleybegan his search for
missing missionaryDr. David Livingston.
He found him in 1871.
Dr. Livingston, I presume?
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King Leopold II of Belgiumwould carve a personal
colonyof over 900,000 square miles.
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East Africa
also divided into colonies.

Famine and rinderpest weakenedany native
resistance.
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South Africa
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European settlement began in 1652with Dutch
settlement of Cape Townwhich would grow into
Cape Colony.
which the British will take over in the early
1800s.
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The Great Trek
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The Boers carved out threecolonies -
Natal
Orange Free State
Transvaal
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Shaka the most influential leader of the Zulu
Kingdom.
The British would defeat the Zuluin 1879.
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The story of diamonds in South Africa begins
between December 1866 and February 1867, when
15-year-old Erasmus Jacobs found a transparent
stone on his father's farm, on the south bank of
the Orange River. Over the next 15 years, South
Africa yielded more diamonds than India had in
over 2,000 years.
Cecil Rhodeswould arrive inSouth Africain 1870.
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Cecil Rhodes
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Within twenty years, Rhodes completelycontrolled
South African diamondproduction.
He would later organize a colony to thenorth
Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
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Political Cartoon
European Claims in Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Boer War
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• 1895 Rhodes tried to overthrow the Transvaal
  govt because the Boers had kept the British from
  opening mines.
• 1899 The Boer War broke out.
• After three horrible years, the British defeated
  the Boers.
• 1910 united Cape Colony and the three Boer
  colonies into the Union of South Africa.
• The new constitution made it almost impossible
  for non-whites to vote.
• The beginning of apartheid.

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Effects of Imperialism on Africa
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• Paternalism
• New crops ways of farming
• Western medicine
• Roads and railroads were built.
• Improved communications

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Emperor Menelik II
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Some African leaders attempted towork with the
Europeans.
1899 negotiated a treaty with Italy
switcheroo didnt work.
Italy would later try to invade Ethiopia
they would not be successful.Ethiopia would be
the only Africannation to remain independent.
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• Assimilation when people give up their own
  culture completely and adopt another culture.

The Africans did not accept European culture and
would continue to live much as they had for
centuries.
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Flowchart 2
Flowchart 1