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| What were the causes for New Imperialism? | The industrial revolution made European countries seek economic gain and desires to sustain their new found riches. |
| What was "New Imperialism"? | One country dominates another country politically. economically, and culturally. |
| What types of reasons did controlling countries give for their imperialism? | European nations came out of the IR with power and money. They hoped for new markets to sell to and wanted easy access to natural resources. |
| Why was western Imperialism so successful? | Europeans had strong economies, powerful militaries, improved medical technologies, well organized governments. |
| What were their military reasons for imperialism? | They needed harbors/ports to resupply their ships of coal. They also wanted easy access to manufacturing resources:, maganese, palm oil, etc. for manufacturing. |
| What role did "nationalism play in Western imperialism? | Rival nations seized neighboring countries to halt other countries from grabbing all the land. |
| What were western "humanitarian goals"? | Missionaries, doctors, and colonial officials felt they had the duty to "spread"medicine, law, and the Christian religion. |
| How did Social Darwinism fit into imperialism? | Many westerners applied Darwins ideas about natural selection...Europeans races=superior to all others. Conquest was nature's way of improving the human species. |
| Who were these imperialists? | soldiers, merchants, settlers, and explorers, bankers |
| Why was Western Imperialism successful? | A few reasons:The Ottoman Empire and the Qin Dynasties were in decline, wars in Africa (slave trade), and newer African Empires were too weak to withstand them. |
| Forms of Imperial rule: | colonies, protectorates, sphers of imfluence (french and Britain) |
| Who were the most successful imperialists? | French and Britains |
| French form: | direct rule: officials and soldiers to do the work. |
| What did the French want? | They wanted to turn the colonies into French |
| Brittish form: | The indirect rule: use of sultans, chiefs, or other local rulers. |
| What did the British want? | They wanted to educate the sons of existing rulers to learn the "British way" |
| What were protectorates? | Local rulers were left, but expected to "follow" to advice of the European rulers. |
| Advantages of protectorates | A protectorate did not require a large military committment to run it (==LESS Expensive!!) |
| Who claimed the Americas? | The USA wanted its "sphere of influence" gained economic power. |
