Imperialism

Summary - Though colonial empires dated back hundreds of years, the rapid drive for colonies at the end of the nineteenth century led Europe to gain political control of most of Asia and Africa. From 1880-1914 European nations scrambled to divide among themselves the entire continent of Africa, except Liberia and Ethiopia. Once European nations carved up empires, they quickly set up colonial governments to rule them and systems to make them profitable. European imperialism brought modern inventions and techniques of the Industrial Revolution to the non-European world, but to peoples in Africa and Asia Western expansion represented a profoundly disruptive attack on their society.

Blog Assignment - Using your notes on imperialistic motives, write a blog response regarding imperialism and be sure to include the following:




Requirements:


Briefly describe the basic goal of imperialism and identify a specific nation or nations that adopted new imperialism

Describe the effect of the imperialism on another nation or nations and provide specific historical references (example: Boer War on the Zulu nation)

Describe at least three motives using specific details from your notes that Europeans used for imperialism in your response

As Always - Make sure your blog;
1. Has a blog title – Imperialism
2. Add a small photo that somehow represents imperialism
3. Minimum of ten sentences
4. Tag five vocabulary terms from your vocabulary list that relate to Imperialism
5. Proper grammar (capitalization, punctuation, spelling)





The goal for Imperialism was to take over a weak country and use its resources and raw materials they had and use them for your country and make your economy more prosperous. England was definitely a imperialist country, they took over many nations like most of Africa and and the United States. Imperialism had many effects on other nations like the Africa had to change all of their beliefs and their way of life. Also some tried to rebel and then they were taken over with out any choice because England had better technology than any other country. so it was basically like guns versus swords and bow and arrows. Like the Boer wars and the Zulu tribes rebelled against the English. Motives for taking over other countries were the needed more supplies for their country like more raw materials so they could sell items cheaper. Also they wanted the land that they were taking over and so they could also expand everything, like their people, and their way of life.