Illustrative Example (p 118) – Rebellions: The Xhosa cattle-killing movement in South Africa
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Illustrative Example (p 118) – Rebellions: The Xhosa cattle-killing movement in South Africa
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Illustrative Example (p 118) – Rebellions: The Xhosa cattle-killing movement in South Africa
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Illustrative Example (p 118) – New States: Zulu Kingdom Continue reading → Post ID 41370
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Illustrative Example (p 118) – New States: Sokoto Caliphate in modern day Nigeria Continue reading → Post ID 41370
Illustrative Example (p 118) – New States: Sokoto Caliphate in modern day Nigeria Continue reading → Post ID 41370
Illustrative Example (p 118) – Direct Resistance: Yaa Asantewaa war in West Africa
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Illustrative Example (p 118) – Direct Resistance: Samory Touré’s military battles in West Africa
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Illustrative Example (p 118) – Direct Resistance: Túpac Amaru II rebellion in Peru
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The Maxim gun was the first recoil-operated machine gun, invented by the American-born British inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1884. It has been called “the weapon most associated with [British] imperial conquest”.
The end of the Civil War allows Mankind to go into overdrive. This is an age of innovation, transformation and mass production. People believe that “Anything, everything, is possible.” Japan goes from feudal society to industrial superpower within 50 years. But progress has its dark side. The demand for rubber devastates Africa. And the desire to build bigger, faster, better leads to a titanic disaster.
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Illustrative Example (p 117) – Non-state to state colonial control: Shift from the private ownership of the Congo by King Leopold II to the Belgium government.
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1884-1885
The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885, also known as the Congo Conference (German: Kongokonferenz) or West Africa Conference (Westafrika-Konferenz), regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany’s sudden emergence as an imperial power.
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As states industrialized during this period, they also expanded their existing overseas colonies and established new types of colonies and transoceanic empires. Regional warfare and diplomacy both resulted in and were affected by this process of modern empire building. The process was led mostly by Europe, although not all states were affected equally, which led to an increase of European influence around the world.
The United States and Japan also participated in this process. The growth of new empires challenged the power of existing land-based empires of Eurasia. New ideas about nationalism, race, gender, class, and culture also developed that facilitated the spread of transoceanic empires, as well as justified anti-imperial resistance and the formation of new national identities.
New racial ideologies, especially Social Darwinism, facilitated and justified imperialism.
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Social Darwinism –
the application of Darwinism to the study of human society, specifically a theory in sociology that individuals or groups achieve advantage over others as the result of genetic or biological superiority.
Social Darwinism was an attempt to justify the widening gap between the haves and the have-nots of society.
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