“The Quest for Empire” Analyzing Imperial Motives.
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“The Quest for Empire”Analyzing Imperial Motives
Pair-Share
• What would be some reasons why a country would want to imperialize (take-over) another?
Standard 10.4.1
• Describe the rise of industrial economies and their link to imperialism and colonial-ism (e.g., the role played by national security and strategic advantage; moral issues raised by the search for national hegemony, Social Darwinism, and the missionary impulse; material issues such as land, resources, and technology).
Objective
• Students will be able to describe the imperial motives by analyzing placards.
Instructions• Get with your Big Ben appointment, desks
side-by-side, two feet apart from other partners.
• On your worksheet: Analyzing Imperial Motives and draw a simple symbol to represent each motive.
• Pick up ONE placard and complete the worksheet.
• Let’s do one together…
Placard A: Open shaft mining at Kimberley, South Africa, in 1872
Placard B: A Methodist Sunday School at Guiongua, Angola, in 1925
Placard C: Germans taking possession of Cameroon in 1881
Placard D: Quote from explorer Henry Stanley in 1882
Placard E: Africans bringing ivory to the wagons in Southe Africa 1860
Placard F: Sketch map of Central Africa, showing Dr. Livingston’s exploration
Placard G: An advertisement for Pear’s Soap from the 1890’s, and one stanza of the British poet Rudyard Kipling’s poem, The White Man’s Burden in 1899.
Placard H: Mrs. Maria C. Douglas, doctor and missionary, and the first class of pupil nurses in Burma, in 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 1890’s.
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 Livingston
Placard O: An imperial yacht passing through the Suez Canal in Egypt at the opening of the canal in 1870.
Wrap-Up
Locations of Imperialism
Using the map, answer the following Questions:
1.Which European countries appear to Control the largest empires?
2. Which countries controlled the least?
3. What might be the result of unequalpossession of colonies?
4. How was the non-European world affected by imperialism?