Pre-19c European Trade with Africa

EconomicCompetition

EconomicCompetition

Source forRaw

Materials

Source forRaw

Materials

Markets forFinishedGoods

Markets forFinishedGoods

EuropeanNationalismEuropean

Nationalism

MissionaryImpulse

MissionaryImpulse

Military& NavalBases

Military& NavalBases

EuropeanMotives

For Colonization

EuropeanMotives

For Colonization

Places toDump

Unwanted/Excess Popul.

Places toDump

Unwanted/Excess Popul.

IndustrialRevolutionIndustrial

Revolution

HumanitarianReasons

HumanitarianReasons

EuropeanRacism

EuropeanRacism

“WhiteMan’s

Burden”

“WhiteMan’s

Burden”

SocialDarwinism

SocialDarwinism

European Explorers in Africa

19c Europeans Map the Interior of Africa

Where Is Dr. Livingstone?

Dr. David Livingstone

DoctorLivingston

e,I Presume?

Sir Henry Morton Stanley

European Explorations in mid-19c:

“The Scramble for Africa”

Africa

in the

1880s

Africa

in

1914

Social Darwinism

Social Darwinism

Justified to the strong the destruction of the weak

Justified to the strong the destruction of the weak

In nature Darwin theorized that it is survival of the fittest. So the Europeans theorized why not in Society? Therefore the rich are superior to the poor and Europe with its Superior Technology is Superior to Africa.

In nature Darwin theorized that it is survival of the fittest. So the Europeans theorized why not in Society? Therefore the rich are superior to the poor and Europe with its Superior Technology is Superior to Africa.

The “White Man’s Burden”

Rudyard Kipling

The “White Man’s Burden”?

5-8 Million Victims! (50% of Popul.)

It is blood-curdling to see them (the soldiers) returning with the hands of the slain, and to find the hands of young children amongst the bigger ones evidencing their bravery...The rubber from this district has cost hundreds of lives, and the scenes I have witnessed, while unable to help the oppressed, have been almost enough to make me wish I were dead... This rubber traffic is steeped in blood, and if the natives were to rise and sweep every white person on the Upper Congo into eternity, there would still be left a fearful balance to their credit. -- Belgian Official

Berlin

Conference

of

1884-1885

Dutch Landing in 1652

Shaka Zulu (1785 – 1828)

Shaka Zulu

•Part of the Zulu tribe•Warriors defeated

neighboring tribes and many Europeans

•Create large centralized state that disintegrated after his death

The Great Trek, 1836-38

Afrikaners

Diamond Mines

Raw Diamonds

The Boer War: 1899 - 1900

The BoersThe British

The Struggle for South Africa

After diamonds found foreigners rush to South Africa

Boers try to keep these foreigners out of politics and a rebellion forms

Boers blame neighboring British for the Rebellion and start one of the first modern wars

England wins in the end and the Boer’s land becomes part of England's South Africa

After diamonds found foreigners rush to South Africa

Boers try to keep these foreigners out of politics and a rebellion forms

Boers blame neighboring British for the Rebellion and start one of the first modern wars

England wins in the end and the Boer’s land becomes part of England's South Africa

A Future British Prime Minister

British Boer War Correspondent, Winston Churchill

Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902)

“The Colossus of Rhodes”

Think….

• What was the Europeans mode of thinking?

• Do you think we are guilty of the same line of reasoning? Why or why not?

• What was the most interesting piece of information?

• Do you think Imperialism was worth it?