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| The New Imperialism European imperialism in the last part of the nineteenth century brought the Western countries into contact with most of the world. |
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| One of the intellectual foundations of the New Imperialism was the doctrine of social Darwinism, a pseudoscientific application of Darwin's ideas about biology to nations and races |
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| THE ASURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST@: |
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darwinism the strong survive
J.A. HOBSON : was an English economist and imperial critic, widely popular as a lecturer and writer |
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| ; Lenin saw imperialism as the final stage in capitalism's development—the pursuit of monopoly. He claimed that as capitalists exhausted opportunities of investment in their home countries, they persuaded their governments to acquire colonies. |
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| AWHITE MAN=S BURDEN@[RUDYARD KIPLING |
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| The White Man's Burden" was written in regard to the U.S. conquest of the Philippines and other former Spanish colonies.[2] Although Kipling's poem mixed exhortation to empire with sober warnings of the costs involved, imperialists within the United States latched onto the phrase "white man's burden" as a characterization for imperialism that justified the policy as a noble enterprise.[3] |
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| THE IMPERIALIST POWERS IN AFRICA AND ASIA : |
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| Great Brittain number one, (list them) |
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| THE COLONIAL ASCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA@ |
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| everyone tried to get africa all the powers, slaves and good mines |
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| KING LEOPOLD II OF THE BELGIANS AND THE CONGO*: |
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| was the king of belgains and got the congo for belgians |
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| DR. DAVID LIVINGSTONE (MISSIONARY) |
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| :One of the greatest explorers was Dr. David Livingstone), who was a missionary dedicated to Africa and its peoples as few other Westerners have been. |
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| HENRY STANLEY (PUBLICIST) |
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| Sir Henry Morton Stanley, also known as Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks) in the Congo, born John Rowlands (January 28, 1841 – May 10, 1904), was a 19th-century Welsh-born journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone whom of which he stated, Dr.Livingsone I presume upon finding him. |
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| CECIL RHODES., BRITISH IMPERIALIST IN AFRICA |
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| founder of deBeers diamonds and founded the rhodes scholarship, huge control of africa, and is now hated by africans |
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| QUEEN VICTORIA OF GREAT BRITAIN: AEMPRESS OF INDIA@: |
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| @:was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India from 1 May 1876, until her death on 22 January 1901. Her reign lasted sixty-three years and seven months, longer than that of any other British monarch (her contemporary, Franz Joseph I of Austria, ruled for 68 years).The Victorian era was at the height of the Industrial Revolution, a period of significant social, economic, and technological change in the United Kingdom. Victoria's reign was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire and during the period it reached its zenith, becoming the formidable Global Power of the time. |
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| A cantonment is a temporary or semi-permanent military quarters |
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| refers to the British rule between 1858 and 1947 of the Indian Subcontinent, or present-day India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Myanmar, during the period whereby these lands were under the colonial control of the United Kingdom as part of the British Empire. |
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| Gandhi was the principal Indian leader after World War I and directed the all-India drive that finally forced out the British. An English-trained lawyer, Gandhi drew not only on his own Hindu (and Jain and Buddhist) heritage, but also on the ideas of Western liberal and Christian thinkers. In the end, Gandhi became a world figure. |
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| Iran The rulers of Iran from 1794 to 1925 were the Qajar shahs, whose absolutist reign was not unlike that of the Safavids. However, the Qajars did not claim, as had the Safavids, to descent from the Shi'ite imams. Under Qajar rule, the ulama of the Shi'ite community became less strongly connected with the state apparatus. |
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| Mustafa Kemal), known as "Ataturk" ("father of the Turks"), its first president of the Turkish Empire). Atatiirk's major reforms ranged from the introduction of a European-style code of civil law to the abolition of the caliphate, Sufi orders, Arabic script, and the Arabic call to prayer. These changes constituted a radical attempt to secularize an Islamic state and to separate religious from political and social institutions |
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was originally called siam now called thialand
BATTLE OF ADOWA (ITALY* VS. ETHIOPIA*): Italy took African colonial territory in Eritrea, Somaliland, and Libya. But the Italian design on Ethiopia was thwarted when Ethiopia defeated an Italian invasion in 1896. The Italians eventually conquered Ethiopia in 1935. |
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| THE (ANGLO-FRENCH) FASHODA CRISIS: |
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| The Fashoda Incident (1898) was the climax of imperial territorial disputes between the United Kingdom and France in Eastern Africa. It brought the United Kingdom and France to the verge of war but ended in a diplomatic victory for the UK |
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| LIBERIA* (MONROVIA*) AND AMERICO-LIBERIANS: |
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The american helped free Liberia to send slaves back there capital is Monrovia after an american president
MOSHESHWE, KING AND FOUNDER OF *LESOTHO: The most famous of these was Lesotho, the Sotho kingdom of King Mosheshwe, which survived as long as he lived (from the 1820s until 1870). Mosheshwe defended his people from the Zulu and held off the Afrikaners, missionaries, and British. After his death, the latter groups became Lesotho's chief predators. |
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| THE AGREAT TREK@ OF THE BOERS): |
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| Great Trek of Boer voortrekers, which took place between 1835 and 1843. This migration brought about 6,000 Afrikaners from the eastern Cape Colony northeastward into the more fertile regions of southern Africa, Natal, and the high veld above the Orange River. |
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| THE UNION [LATER REPUBLIC] OF SOUTH AFRICA*: |
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| These developments stemmed from the Great Trek of Boer voortrekers, which took place between 1835 and 1843. This migration brought about 6,000 Afrikaners from the eastern Cape Colony northeastward into the more fertile regions of southern Africa, Natal, and the high veld above the Orange River. It resulted in the creation after 1850 of two Afrikaner republics: the Orange Free State between the Orange and Vaal Rivers and the South African Republic north of the Vaal. |
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| BOERS ( TODAY=S AFRIKANERS) AND SOUTH AFRICA): |
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| fought against the british, were church people that went to africa to get away from everything eventually the british one and they went to st. helena |
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| African states were not, however, passive objects of European manipulation. Astute native rulers sought to use the European presence to their own advantage. Some, like the Bagandan king Mutesa in the 1870s (in what is today Uganda), succeeded for some time. |
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