Week 8 day 2-timeline and empire building

Good Afternoo

n1. Write down

your EQ and homework for today.

SPONGESPONGE

Analyze the Political Cartoon. What do you think it means?

#1. What trends do you notice by looking at the timeline? (What countries were really powerful in the beginning in exploration and what countries were powerful at the end?)

#2. Based on the information in your timeline, make a hypothesis of which nation was the most powerful at the end of the “Age of Exploration.”

questions to answer

Colonialism and AfricaWorld Studies

So what happened in Africa?

Africa Colonialism Video

Political Cartoon

What is being depicted in this political cartoon?

Who are the people involved and what do they represent?

Political Cartoon

What is being depicted in this political cartoon?

Who are the people involved and what do they represent?

Slave Trade

Slave Transportation

Colonialism

Why would the Europeans want their land too??

Industrial Revolution = more raw materials…… Africa has them!!

Inventions increased the speed of making goods

Little was known about the interior of Africa

Missionaries went to Africa to convert Africans to Christianity… often resulting in destroying African traditions.

Discoveries of interior Africa by Europeans such as David Livingstone and Cecil Rhodes

Competition for Africa Each nation wanted

the biggest or richest colonies and control of trade

To prevent war, the Berlin Conference took place in 1884

Discussed how to divide Africa without consulting Africans

By 1912, all of Africa was colonized except for Ethiopia and Liberia

Impact of Colonial Rule Europeans only cared about

gold, diamonds, and other resources

Europeans looked down on African culture as inferior

Worsened conflicts between ethnic groups-Why?

In Rwanda, Belgians established a system where people were to carry identity cards

Hutu and Tutsi Belgians decided anyone who

owned more than 10 cows was a Tutsi and got special treatment

Hutus were resentful and led a massacre and civil war in 1994

Scramble for Africa!

Political Cartoon

What is being depicted in this political cartoon?

Who are the people involved and what do they represent?

British Empire- 1920

French Empire in

Asia