1. Industrialization & Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order
Chapter 24

2. Map Exercise 24.1 European Colonial Territories, Before and After 1800 (page 570)
1. The World in 1763
a. What was the largest European Empire?
b. Which European nations had overseas empires?
2. The World in 1830
a. Which European nation had the largest empire?
b. Which European nations had largely lost their empires?
c. What events between 1763 & 1830 would account for their changes?

3. 1. Early expansions prior to 1800
Map Exercise 24.2 & 24.3 The Stages of Dutch Expansion in Java (page 571) The Growth of the British Empire in India (page 573)
1. Early expansions prior to 1800
a. What lands did the British & Dutch control?
b. How would you describe the pattern of acquisition & control?
2. Expansion after 1800
a. What patterns did British & Dutch pursue in acquiring colonies?
b. What would be the benefit of having allies & dependent states?

4. Map Exercise 24.4 The Partition of Africa (page 579)
1. Map around 1870
a. Which European nations control what areas?
b. Describe the pattern of settlement.
c. What might account for this pattern of control?
2. Map around 1914
a. Which 2 states have gotten the largest African empires?
b. What other states have African empires?
c. Why might Germany be considered a “spoiler” in Africa?

6. Land empires in Asia
early partition of world haphazard
officials would expand authority then report home
Dutch in Java
1. pay tribute
2. monopoly on spices
3. support winner of Mataram throne
4. regularly intervene
5. gain land

7. British rule in India pivotal much like Dutch in Java
British East India Company
Mughal Empire disintegrates
British intervene with sepoys
global rivalry
with French
Plassey (1757)
- control of Bengal

8. Consolidation of British Rule
Presidencies – Calcutta, Madras, Bombay
- directly govern territories
other regions controlled by agents in Indian court
19th c. – major colonial possession
Sepoys
Indian ports
- raw materials
- markets for manufactured goods
- overseas investment

9. Social reform early colonial society
– leave Asian social systems intact
formed new “top” class
previous rulers do administrative work
accommodate to indigenous culture
Social reform
late 18th century
- corruption in BEI Co
reforms - made more accountable to British govt
re-make Indian society

10. Industrial Rivalries industrialization increases
Western military superiority
Western nations become unchallenged masters of other civilizations
- increase economic competition
- increase political rivalries
British dominate til 1850
- then Belgium, France, Germany & US

11. Colonial Wars mass produced weapons machine guns railroads steamships
few natives could compete
1914 – all Africa fallen to Europeans
- Liberia & Ethiopia not colonies
- SE Asia – only Siam free
- China, Persia & Middle east unoccupied
- yet strong Euro influence

12. Patterns of Dominance tropical dependencies
- Africa, Asia & Sth Pacific
- few Europeans rule many indigenous
White Dominions
- Canada & Australia
- inhabited mostly by Europeans, few natives
- 19th century – self government
contested settler colonies
- Sth Africa, Algeria, New Zealand, Kenya, Hawaii
- Europeans & indigenous clash over control & culture

13. Colonial Regimes Europeans exploit ethnic & cultural divisions
minorities favored
small numbers of Euros administer
indigenous officials work at local levels
European racial prejudices
Asians - more opportunities
stunt growth of middle class

14. Changing social relations
tension b/t ruler & ruled
- live in segregated communities
- laws against miscegenation
white supremacy
Shifts in Economies
introduction in late 1800s of new agricultural techniques
work harder to produce more

15. - cheap consumer goods
- increased taxation
- forced labor
reduced to dependence on Euro nations
railroads & roads for transport of raw materials
export crops
profits to Europe

16. Settler Colonies parallels between Canada, Australia & Sth Africa
temperate climates, few diseases
Australia - British
- 1840s
- stay on coast
- drove indigenous inland
- thinly populated
- little resistance
- peaceful, self-governing
Canada - British
- 1600s
- move inland
- drove indigenous inland
- some resistance
- Anglo-French friction
- peaceful, self-governing
Sth Africa - Afrikaners
- 1600s
- stay on coast
- thinly populated
- little resistance
- enslaved & interbred
- conflict b/t British & Afrikaners
- Afrikaners move inland, form 2 republics

17. Pacific demographic disaster social disruption New Zealand – 1790s
- Maoris suffer, disease, alcoholism
- adjust, Christianity, farming
- 1850s – pushed to interior
- use legal, political & education systems to protect culture
Hawaii – 1770s
- Kamehameha works with British
- royalty adopts western ways
- encourage export & western business
- Christianity
- Americans take over 1898