1. Bell Ringer  What point do you think the cartoonist is trying to make in the following cartoon? “The sun never sets on the British Empire”

2. Advantages and Disadvantages

3. Types of Rule  Direct Rule  (France) Colonies  Indirect Rule  Great Britain  Protectorate  Less cost/ less involvement  Sphere of influence  Exclusivity

4. The White Man’s Burden  Read the Rudyard Kipling poem and answer the three questions in complete sentences. This WILL be turned in.

5. Things to Know  David Livingstone  Henry Stanley  Boers  Boer War  Berlin Conference

6. Mr. Livingstone I Presume  David Livingstone- Explorer who felt that spreading Christianity and opening Africa’s interior would end the slave trade.  Henry Stanley- journalist who found Livingstone.

7. The Boer War  Boers- Dutch farmers who fought the Zulu tribe.  Boer Wars- Wars fought between the Dutch and the British over diamonds and gold.

8. Africa: Berlin Conference  Tensions among the European powers seeking African colonies led to the Berlin West Africa Conference (1884-1885)  Berlin Conference-  Conference devising rules for the colonization of Africa.

10. Later Problems  The arbitrary boundaries of the Berlin Conference did not take into consideration the natural divisions of the African people (religion, culture, language, ethnicity, etc)  The invention of rigid grouping of different groups and the establishment of artificial tribal boundaries became one of the greatest obstacles to nation building and stability in much of Africa during the 20 th Century

11. King Leopold’s Ghost Established the Congo Free State in the 1870s.

12. Belgian Congo

13. Political Cartoons

14. Quotes  “Imprisoning 60 women and putting them in chains, where all but five died of starvation.”  This man himself, when I visited him in Boma goal, in March, 1901, said that more than 100 women and children had died of starvation at his hands, but that the responsibility was due to his superiors’ orders and neglect.”  Obedience??