MODERN
WORLD
HISTORY:
QUARTER
2
Question:
Background:
Industrialization
stirred
ambitions
in
many
European
nations.
They
wanted
more
resources
to
fuel
their
industrial
protection.
They
competed
for
new
markets
for
their
goods.
Many
nations
looked
to
Africa
as
a
source
of
raw
materials
and
as
a
market
for
industrial
products.
As
a
result,
colonial
powers
seized
vast
areas
of
Africa
during
the
19th
and
20th
centuries.
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1
The
Devilfish
in
Egyptian
Waters,
Punch
1882
Identify
and
explain
the
causes
that
led
to
European
imperialism
in
Africa.
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2
European
Colonial
Possessions
in
Africa
18701914
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3
Gentlemen, we must speak more loudly and more honestly! We must say openly that indeed the higher races have a right over the lower races... I repeat, that the superior races have a right because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize the inferior races... I maintain that European nations acquit themselves with generosity, with grandeur, and with sincerity of this superior civilizing duty. Gentlemen, in Europe such as it is today, a policy of withdrawal or abstention is simply the high road to decadence! In our time nations are great only through the activity they deploy… spreading light without acting, without taking part in the affairs of the world is to abdicate and, in less time than you may think, to sink from the first rank to the third and fourth. Jules
Ferry,
Prime
Minister
of
France
"Speech
Before
the
French
Chamber
of
Deputies,
March
28,
1884,"
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5
Cartoon
by
Edward
Linley
Sambourne,
published
in
Punch
after
Rhodes
announced
plans
for
a
telegraph
line
from
Cape
Town
to
Cairo,
1882.
Take up the White Man's burden-Send forth the best ye breed-Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild-Your...