Transcript Chapter 33: The Building of Global Empires

AP World History: Kimberly Zerbst
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Justification for Imperialism
Direct/Indirect Rule
New patterns of global trade
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Gold and diamonds in S. Africa
British Empire
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Single resourcing
British in India
Belgian Congo
•White man’s burden
•Social Darwinism
DIRECT RULE
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France
Install a government
Colony is “annexed”
into the mother
country’s culture
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Language
Religion
culture
INDIRECT RULE
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England
Set up as a protectorate
or establish a
local/regional
government
Colony keeps it’s own
culture
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Language of govt. still the
mother country
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On your whiteboard answer the following:
The colony uses native language and the governor
is an educated person from that colony – name the
colonizing country
The colony is strictly Roman Catholic, the mayor
of your province is French – name the colonizing
country
You aren’t allowed to speak your native language
or educate your children in your own religion –
name the colonizing country
You have to pay taxes to the colonizing country
but you’ve never seen someone from that country
in your village- name the colonizing country
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Diamonds – 1867
Gold – 1886
Profitability
calculations
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Apartheid’s
beginnings
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On your whiteboard answer each question
Biggest geographical colonial empire?
Most colonies
Most important trade route?
What two canals fundamentally changed
trade?
Who built/maintained them?
Which countries emerge during this time
period as economic/trading powerhouses?
http://www.friesian.com/british.htm
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EIC takes over 1757
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Battle of Plassey
1857 Indian Mutiny (sepoy
rebellion)
EIC abolished 1858 – crown
assumes control
1898 Indian nationalist movement
1947 Indian independence
http://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=2yXKbd5IDzU
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http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=dpx5h
y5TejE
In return for "one piece of cloth per month to each of the
undersigned chiefs, besides present of cloth in hand, they
promised to freely of their own accord, for themselves and
their heirs and successors for ever...give up to the said
Association [set up by Leopold] the sovereignty and all
sovereign and governing rights to all their territories...and to
assist by labour or otherwise, any works, improvements or
expeditions which the said Association shall cause at any
time to be carried out in any part of these territories... All
roads and waterways running through this country, the right
of collecting tolls on the same, and all game, fishing, mining
and forest rights, are to be the absolute property of the said
Association."
Contract between Congolese Chiefs and King Leopold I of Belgium 1885
Using this
primary source,
Afternoon Tea for the
Working Classes: 1850
Write a thesis
statement and brief
essay that explains:
What does this
primary source tell us
about trade in
nineteenth century
Great Britain?
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Justification for Imperialism
Direct/Indirect Rule
New patterns of global trade
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
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Gold and diamonds in S. Africa
British Empire
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Single resourcing
British in India
Belgian Congo