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IMPERIALISMImperialism- The cultural, economic, orpolitical domination by one country overanother
ECONOMICpromote production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
• desire to make money• expand and control foreign trade • create new markets for products• acquire raw materials and cheap labor
– gold, copper, coal, diamonds, ivory, salt, rubber, oil, slaves
POLITICALdesire to gain power and territory in the name of one’s country • competed with other European countries to
claim territory in Africa• exercised military force with superior
weapons• gained prestige by winning colonies• boosted national pride and security
– Nationalism – strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country
RELIGIOUSDesire to convert people to Christianity so all can be saved
• missionaries followed explorers into Africa to spread European values and moral beliefs and “civilization” to Africans
• Brought Christianity to Africa in order to “save” natives
Excerpt from The White Man’s Burden
Take up the White Man’s Burden--
Send forth the best ye breed---
Go bind your sons to exile---
To serve your captives’ need…
Take up the White Man’s Burden--
The savage wars of peace---
Fill full the mouth of famine---
And bid the sickness cease…
-Rudyard Kipling, 1899
IDEOLOGICAL/SOCIAL DARWINISTBelief that Europeans are superior to “primitive peoples”
• Europeans felt superior to “primitive” people and cultures
• It was the “White Man’s Burden” to take care of the uncivilized
• Social Darwinism implied natural selection to human beings- only the strongest nations (aka European) would survive