1. Its Impact on Africa & Asia
Imperialism
Its Impact on
Africa & Asia

2. Essential Question:
To what degree was Nationalism a contributing factor to both imperialism and anti-imperialism?

3. The White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling
Take up the White Man’s Burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered fold and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.

4. Martyr by David Diop The White Man killed my father,
My father was proud.
The White Man seduced my mother,
My mother was beautiful.
The White Man burnt my brother beneath the noonday sun.
My brother was strong.
His hands red with black blood
The White Man turned to me;
And in the Conqueror’s Voice said,
“Boy! A chair, a napkin, a drink.”

5. Long Range Causes Industrial Revolution European Nationalism
Social Darwinism
Slave Trade in Africa

6. Immediate Causes Availability of raw materials in Africa & Asia
Potential Markets in Africa
& Asia
Internal Rivalries in Asia
Superior European
Weapon Technology

7. British Raj in India British found city of Calcutta, 1690
British East India ruled Bengal
Sepoy Rebellion against British, 1857
India became British Colony
Indian National Congress began fight for Independence 1885

8. Indian Independence
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Nonviolent civil disobedience

9. European Control of China
1517 Portuguese establish Embassy
1557 Portugal established Macao
1700’s British tea trade in Canton
Opium Wars, ,
Taiping Rebellion,
Boxer Rebellion, 1900

10. Western Impact on Japan
1543 Portugal made contact
1633 Japan closed trade
& contact with Europe
1853 U.S. Commodore Perry visited Japan
1868--Meiji Restoration—Japan modernized
1905—Japan defeated Russia = world power
1941—Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

11. How did Western Imperialism affect Asia?
India—colony of Great Britain.
China—European spheres of influence weakened & corrupted Chinese Empire.
Japan—kept Europeans out, then modernized to compete with Europeans as equals.

12. Impact
of European
Colonization
on Africa

14. Exploration of Africa
David Livingston
Stanley

16. British Involvement in Africa
slave traders
combat slave trade
establish colonies
Zanzibar

17. European powers negotiated & formalized claims to territory in Africa
Berlin Conference
European powers negotiated & formalized claims to territory in Africa

18. East Africa How Africa Was Divided Victoria got Mt. Kenya
the Kaiser got Mt. Kilimanjaro
the Maasai were separated into to colonies

20. Two Reasons for Colonies
Export Goods
Most of Africa
France
Belgium
Italy
Portugal
British West Africa
Import People
British Kenya
German Tanzania
Dutch & British in South Africa, Zambia & Zimbabwe

21. “This Magnificent African Cake”
Belgium Congo
“This Magnificent African Cake”
personal empire
mining & rubber
forced labor
torture & maiming
Leopold II

22. Coffee, tea, tobacco, cotton, rubber
Cash Crops for Export
Coffee, tea, tobacco, cotton, rubber

23. South Africa & Rhodesia
Dutch (Boers) & British settlers fought for control of Southern Africa
Cecil Rhodes & British defeat the Dutch & control region
World’s largest supply of diamonds and gold

24. Effects of Immigration from Europe
Loss of Land
Africans became workers on European plantations on the very land they once owned.
Taxation
Hut Tax and Head Tax
2nd Class Citizens
not allowed to attend schools
segregation laws

25. Nana Yaa Asantewa Asante Queen Mother
led her people in battle against the British to save Golden Stool
Stopped British colonization for 20 years

26. By 1900 only 2 African Nations remained independent...
Ethiopia
Liberia

27. Legacy of Colonialism Problems African Nations Face:
Political Instability--dictators and ethnic conflicts > arbitary boundaries
Debt--money owed to the World Bank, wealth exported during colonialism
famine--food shortages caused by growing cash crops for export to pay debt

28. Legacy of Colonialism
European Benefits of Colonialism were not shared with the African People
Africans have yet to benefit from European Democracy & Capitalism

29. Immediate Effects of European Imperialism
Exploitation of Colonial resources
Collapse of Local African & Asian Economies
Inhumane Treatment of Local Populations
Increase in European Conflicts &
their worldwide impact
Spread of Christianity

30. Long Range Effects Breakdown of Traditional Culture
Spread of European technology, culture, & values
3rd World Debt & Economic Handicap
Improved health care
& education
Ethnic conflicts in Africa
& Asia