imperialism

Control by a strong nation over a weaker nation

• Imperialism:

• Social Darwinism:

• Boer War

• Sepoy

a missionary from Scotland who traveled deep into central Africa to promote Christianity.

• Darwinism

• Dr. David Livingston

• Shaka

• Cecil Rhoades:

poem by Rudyard Kipling explaining an attitude of racial superiority & the need to spread

“civilization” for Imperialism

• Imperialism:

• Social Darwinism:

• White Man’s Burden:

• Geopolitics:

Meeting at which Europeans agreed on rules for colonizing Africa. No African nations were

represented at conference.

• Social Darwinism

• Berlin Conference

• Crimean War

• Suez Canal

Zulu chief who used highly disciplined warriors and good military organization to create a large

centralized state in southern Africa.

• Boer

• Shaka

• Livingston

• Paternalism:

Dutch colonist in South Africa

• Suez Canal

• Boer

• Opium War

• Taiping Rebellion

War between the British and the Boers over the discovery of gold and diamonds in Boer lands in

South Africa

• Boer War

• King Leopold II:

• Berlin Conference:

• Sepoy Mutiny:

King of Belgium, The Belgian Congo was where the worst atrocities happened in Africa

• David Livingston

• King Leopold II:

• Cecil Rhoades:

• Meiji Era:

Governing in a “parental” way by providing for needs but not giving rights

• Paternalism

• Assimilation

• Sepoy

• Commodore

Absorbing colonized people into the culture of the imperialist nation

• Boer

• Paternalism

• Assimilation

• Shaka