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Read British take over India for thursday! - chapter 12
= = =Imperialism: =

-related to empires

-policy of extending a country's power through diplomacy or military force.

-the policy of extending the rule or authority or a nation over foreign countries



**1.** **What forces shaped Africa?** Religion, Imperialistic motifs, past colonization, and impact of Slave Trade.

**2.** **Why did European contact with Africa increase in the 1800s?** European contact increased in the 1800s because Europeans were very interested in creating and farming crops in the Caribbean, and so they needed these slaves from Africa to work on the plantations during this time. Also, people came into Africa in order to get many of their rich resources. Also, Missionaries were interested in converting Africans to Christianity so they fled into Africa as well to do so.

**3.** **How did Leopold II start the scramble for the African colonies?** Leopold began this scramble by forming a relationship with the African villages. He would trade treaties along the Congo River Basin

**__Building the Oversea Empire__** Q1: What are the causes of imperialism? Answer: Military, European Economics, Political and Military motives Q2: Why did Western imperialism spreed so rapidly? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 19px;">Empirialism nations gain control on the world. They had soldiers, marchants, settlers missionaries and explorers.The imperials were in favor of all the classes, the bankers, manufactures and workers as well. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 19px;">Q3: How did different imperials governments rule the empire? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 19px;">Answer:Developed the colonial rules, encouraged the children to get British education, like France Britain also would resort the military forces.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">__**economic**__ <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">to reap the benefits of controlling a foreign market. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">to extract raw materials and resources. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">they could capitalize on the control of a foreign market. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">__**political**__ <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">gain control over an entire region. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">an imperialists agenda made politicians more popular in their home countries. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">__**military**__ <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">gain military control of a region <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">imperial posts became an excuse to have military bases around the world. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">__**humanitarian/ religions**__ <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">religious wanted to spread their religions. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">some europeans felt like they could help natives in other areas of the world. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">__**racism**__ <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">white europeans believed they were superior to people of color around the world. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">europeans felt that it was the "white man's burden" to civilize the rest of the world.

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