Chapter 33 Flashcards
Few Europeans had traveled to South Africa by the mid ninteenth centruy, but what discovery brought lots of them there?
Disovery of diamonds and rich gold deposits brought the people there
What was the background of Cecil John Rhodes,
He was an `18 year old student at Oxford University who in 1871, went to South Africa in search of a climate that would relieve his tuberculosis.
Rhodes did what?
Was persisitent, systematic, and ambitious. He carefully supervised African laboerers who worked his claims in the diamond fields.
1889 What had Cecil John Rhodes done?
He controlled 90 percent of the world’s diamond production, With ample financial backing, he bought the rights to other’sclaims when they loked promising
Imperialism is a term that many Europeans began to speak of..what does it mena?
It refers to the domination of European powers and later the United States and Japan asw well. Over subject lands in the larger world.
How did imperial domination come?
It sometimes came in the old fashioned way, by force of arms, but often it arose form trade investment and business activities that enabled imperial powers to profit form subject socieites nad influence their affairs wihtout going to the trouble of exercising direct affairs
Like the building of empires, the establishment of colonies in foregin lands is a practice dating from when
ancint times
In modern parlance, colonialism refers to not just the sending of colonists to settle into new lands, nbut also the
political, social, economic, and cultural structures that enabled imperial powers to dominated subject lands
European powers established settler colonies populated largely by
migrants from the home societies.
Yet, contemporary scholars also speak of European colonies where?
In India, southeast Asia and even SubSaharan Africa…even though European migrants did not settle there in large numbers
European agents, officials, and business peopl effectively turned those lands into colonies and did what/
profoundly influenced the culture there, an dhte historical development by controlling their domestic and foreign policies, integrating local economies into the network of gobal capitalism. and introducing European stadards and promoting European cuture
During the second half about the of the nineteenth century, many Europeans came tobelieve what about imperial expansion
That imperial expansion and colonial domination were crucial for the surviival of thier states nad societies- and soemtimes for the health of their personal fortnes
European merchants and entrepreneurs sometimes became-…from ventures
became very wealthy from these ventures
After making his fortune mining diamonds nad gold, what did Cecil Rhodes do?>
He worked on behalf of British Expansion
What motives encouraged European people to launch campaigms of conquest and control?
- Economic interests
- Overseas colonies could serve as reliable sources of raw materials that were not available in Eure that came into demand
What were some products that were in high demand>
They were rubber, tn, and copper were vital products. and they were crucial to industrialized lands.
Where was Rubber avaliable>
In the Amazon basin, but imperialists established colonial rubber planations in the Congo River and Malaya
What two countries supplied most of the world’s petroleum?
Russia and the UNited Sates
People thought that colonies would consume manufactured products and provdie a haven for
migrants in an age of rapidly increasing European products would provde a haven for migrants in an age of development
As European states extended their influence overseas, what arguenet gained prominence?
THe Geopolitical argument-even if colonies were not economically beneficial, it was crucial for political and military reasons to maintain them. Some overseas colonies occupied strategic sites on teh word’s sea lanes, others had harbors
How was Imperialism used for domestic plans?
In an age when socialists and communits directly confronted industralists, European politicians nad national leaders ought to defuse social tension and inspire patriotism byb focusing public attention n foreign imperialist ventures
