Transcript Kamin Imperialism Flow Chart PPT (side 2).

Imperialism Quiz
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Nation
Great Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
The Netherlands
Belgium
Spain
Portugal
United States
Africa
X
X
X
X
Asia
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
S. Am.
X
X
X
X
X
X
French Colonial Empire - 1905
Ignore these parts
German Colonial Empire
Japanese Colonial Empire
Dutch (Netherlands) Colonial Empire
Belgian Colonial Empire
Spanish Colonial Empire
Portuguese Colonial Empire
U.S. Colonial Empire
Percentage of world controlled by
colonial empires
c. 1914
Britain
Independent
21.5 U.S.
29.8
7.6
Japanese
0.4
84%
Russian
15
Chinese
Spanish
6
1
OttomanFrench
7.7
1.5
Others:
Portuguese 1%
Dutch 1.4%
German 1.6%
Italian 1.8%
Belgian 1.6%
British Colonial Empire
South American Imperialism
AFRICA BEFORE 1880
Berlin Conference, 1884
Congress of Berlin, 1884
Battle of Adowa, 1896
Menelik II of Ethiopia
defeats Italian Invaders
The Philippines
African Independence by Date
Toussaint L’ouverture
Haiti, 1804
Simon Bolivar
Sun-Yat Sen, China, 1911
Mohandas Gandhi, India, 1947
Who
is
this
person?
Queen Victoria of England
• Reign - June 1837 to
January 1901
• Period of rule known as
the Victorian era
• Ruled during peak of
Industrial Revolution
• Expanded British Empire
• Ruled over most powerful
nation in the world
The grandmother of Europe
What does she have in common with
these bad guys?
BRITISH OPIUM TRADE WAS CRITICIZED
BY MANY
The East India Company’s opium factory stacking
room
By what right do they [British merchants] . . .
use the poisonous drug [opium] to injure the
Chinese people? . . . I have heard that the
smoking of opium is very strictly forbidden by
your country; that is because the harm caused
by opium is clearly understood. Since it is not
permitted to do harm to your own country,
then even less should you let it be passed on to
the harm of other countries.
LIN ZEXU,
quoted in China’s Response to the West
China
Direct vs. Indirect Rule
European nations chose one of two different paths
when it came to colonial rule:
Indirect rule: colonies were given a Direct rule: the colony was directly
degree of internal autonomy
administered by the colonizer
Example: Nigeria
Example: Senegal