WARMUP—5 Minutes

Use the glossary of your textbook to define these three words:

Colony Imperialism Nationalism

Think of one example of each - This can be real, from a movie/book, or hypothetical (use the index if you need to)

Imperialism Motives

Motivation for Domination

The Age of Imperialism

Growth of European technology allows, and requires, expansion across the globe (~1870-1914)

A number of motives for Imperialism: Economic Motives – New Markets and New Resources Political Motives – Competition between countries Religious Motives – Desire to spread Christian morals

and values Exploratory Motives – Early imperialism, explore for

fame and ego Ideological Motives – Social Darwinism and the desire

to “civilize” non-Europeans

Assignment In your group of 4-5, come up with a

“Symbol” for each of the 5 Motives for Imperialism

Discuss each “placard” in your group and fill in your chart, including drawing the symbol for any motives you think are present.

Placard A – Open Shaft Diamond Mine in South

Africa, 1872

Placard B – A Methodist Sunday School at Guiongua, Angola, 1925

Placard C – Germans taking possession of Cameroon in

1881

Placard D – Quote from explorer Henry M. Stanley

Placard E – Africans bringing ivory to the wagon in South Africa, c.

1860

Placard F – Sketch map of Central African, showing Dr. Livingstone’s

exploration

Placard G – Sketch map of Central African, showing Dr. Livingstone’s

exploration

Rudyard Kipling: “White Man’s Burden” (1899) Take up the White Man's burden--Send forth the best ye breed--Go bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives' need;To wait in heavy harness,On fluttered folk and wild--Your new-caught, sullen peoples,Half-devil and half-child.

Placard H – Mrs. Maria C. Douglas, a doctor and missionary, and the first class of

pupil nurses in Burma, 1888.

Placard I – British cartoon showing the Chinese being savaged by European

powers, and the poem The Partition of China 1897

Placard J - Bagged groundnuts in pyramid stacks in West Africa

Placard K - French capture of the citadel of Saigon, Vietnam

Placard L - British Lipton Tea advertisement in the 1890s

Placard M - British cartoon “The Rhodes Colossus” showing Cecil Rhodes’ vision of making Africa

“all British from Cape to Cairo” 1892

Placard N - Epitaph and quote from missionary and explorer David Livingstone

Placard O - An imperial yacht passing through the Suez Canal in Egypt at the opening of the

canal in 1870

Primary Source Assignment

Complete the provided primary source readings and questions and have them stamped—Due Friday

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