1. Description: A stronger nation controls a weaker one
Imperialism
Description:
A stronger nation controls a weaker one

3. Early Imperialism seventeenth century Americas
have trading posts and agreements

4. New Imperialism nineteenth century Africa and Asia
wanted direct control over territories

5. Location Great Britain: West Africa North Africa South Africa
Gold Coast
Nigeria
North Africa
Egypt
Sudan
South Africa

6. Location France: Indochina(Indonesia) Cambodia Laos Annam Tonkin
Mekong Delta (Cochinchina)

7. Location
Japan:
Korea
Port Arthur
Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa)
Taiwan

8. Colonial Policies ruled either
Indirectly = allowed local rulers and political elites to rule, made ruling easier and less costly
Directly = new officials from the mother country were put in charge of taxes, law and order, and other governmental matters
a response from the Early Imperialism that resulted in the American, Haitian and Latin American Revolutions

9. Colonial Policies Great Britain:
protectorate over Gold Coast, Nigeria, Egypt and Sudan
created the independent Union of South Africa a self- governing nation within the British Empire to appease the Boers(Dutch), the policy was that only whites could vote
most decisions came from Great Britain, and local rulers rubber-stamped and enforced these decisions, maintaining their power (indirect rule)

10. Colonial Policies France:
France extended protection over neighboring Cambodia, Laos, Annam, and Tonkin
Protectorate = indirect rule just like with Great Britain in Africa
imposed direct rule in the southern provinces in the Mekong delta(Cochinchina)

11. Colonial Policies Japan:
the Japanese claimed direct control of the Ryukyu Islands
annexing Korea in 1910 as a protectorate using indirect control, and pushing assimilation onto the Koreans

12. Influence of Geography
Great Britain:
Berlin Conference – European Powers meet in Berlin to split Africa up to prevent a war in Europe over territory
controlled the parts of Africa that had an abundance of Natural Resources
controlled Egypt for the Suez Canal
control trade between the Mediterranean and Red Sea
“lifeline to India”

13. Influence of Geography
France:
the dense jungles of Indochina were an ideal location for plantations
wanted to stop British expansion into all of Southeast Asia and to compete with the British colony in India

14. Influence of Geography
Japan:
began to obtain control of the trade in the Pacific Ocean especially North Eastern Asia

15. Natural Resources Great Britain: Gold, Salt, Diamonds France:
teak wood, rubber, tin, spices, tea, coffee, sugar
Japan:
coal, iron, tea, silk