Chapter 4 - Role of Explorers Flashcards

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Livingstone 1841 South Africa

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Missionary Doctor

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Explorers and Discovery

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Livingstone, Kirk, Burton and Hanning Speke.

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1858 Received

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Funding from government to return to Africa.

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Zambezi River

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2000 letters thrilled public.

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Kirk

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Science, Christian duty and desire for respectable colonial position.

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Livingstone and Kirk collected

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Aquatic specimens sent back to Britain

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1868 (Zanzibar)

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Return to Africa as medical officer

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Kirk African East Coast (1895)

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Actions gave Britain toe-in: British East Africa

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Burton famous for

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Stories of Muslim life and manners

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Burton catches malaria 1858

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Speke discovers Lake Victoria - believed to be source of River Nile

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Missionaries sought to spread Christian faith:

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Presbyterians, Methodists, Anglicans and Roman Catholics

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Wesleyan missionaries

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Set up ‘conferences’ to oversee missions in NZ, Canada and Australia

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South African Conference 1882 and 1883

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Missionary Mackenzie put pressure on British gvt. to establish protectorate over Bechuanaland

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Methodist missions Far East

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China 1850
Fat-Shan 1860
North China 1862

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Slessor lived alongside Calabar and Nigerian tribes, fought to end

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Practice of killing twins

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Amy Carmichael worked 55 years in India

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Produced 35 books and rescue temple children (young girls forced into in prostitution)

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Missionaries established

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Compounds, churches and provided housing and farm work in return for conversion

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Missionaries offered native people

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Education, food, jobs and houses

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1880s Anglican Church Missionary Society (Niger)

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Clashed with first Anglican African Bishop Crowther - forced to resign 1891

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Role and influence of colonial Britain’s empire typically run by

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Men on the spot - positions of control

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Colonial office London formally appointed

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British governors

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Men on the spot started out as traders and explorers e.g.

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Mackinnon, Rhodes and Goldie

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John Kirk left behind exploration when he became Vice-Consul in Zanzibar - developed

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Influence over Sultan Barghash

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Kirk effectively became ruler of Zanzibar - even

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Negotiated Sultan’s Mombassa coastal strip to Mackinnon’s imperial British East Africa Company

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Sir Evelyn Baring began career as (until 1876)
Colonial admin in India, private secretary to Lord Northbrook
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Baring had typical sense of superiority - second posting in (1877)
Egypt 1877 - helped Ismael Pasha out of financial difficulties
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Returned to Egypt 1882 as consul-general - approved
1883 Dufferin Report which established Egyptian puppet parliament. Ruled veiled protectorate until 1907
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Bartle Frere began career in Indian Civil Service - supported crushin of Indian Mutiny
Won place on Viceroy's Council at his led to appointment as High Commissioner and Governor of Cape Colomy in 1877
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Fere left weak position - war with Zulus ended Dec 1878 however Jan 1879
Shocking defeat of British forces and high cost led to Fere's withdrawal by Gladstone's liberal govt. 1880