Africa

=__**AFRICA**__=




 * **How can political change cause conflict**
 * **How does the development of nationalism impact people, nations, and empires?**
 * **How can political relationships affect economic relationships?**
 * **What characteristics and factors unite people as a nation?**


 * Video:**
 * - scramble of Africa **
 * - Europeans have been in Africa **
 * - industrialization **
 * - cotton, copper, iron and rubber **
 * - they failed because they couldn't do anything **
 * - Africa had diseases of its own which killed Europeans because they did not have an immune system like Africans had. **
 * - no horses, no problem **
 * - Guns helped Europeans to wipe out Africans in fight after fight. **
 * - 300,000,000 million Indians**
 * - Indian were under the power of British control. **
 * - Rule through and bide the natives **
 * - educated in Europe and they couldn't resist because they would be defeated. **
 * - European imperialism involved a lot of fighting **
 * - most of our items are from china and Africa **
 * - 1800's europeans gained a lot of control in africa **
 * - imperialism brough wealth and power to europeans **
 * - most europeans though colonization was noblizing **
 * - african nations were troubled by economic and power weakness **
 * - slave trade contributed to intertrible war fair **
 * - african colonies could be used as european ports **
 * - europeans wanted africans to pick up weastern ways of life **
 * - king leopard exploded the land in conga and made the africans work which dropped the population drastically because of the working conditions **
 * - kertz believes hes a paigan God **
 * - liberia and eithipoia were the only two places who did not fall into the european strike and they stayed to their culture and belifes. **

=** 5/23/14 **=


 * Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples, and sucks the blood like a vampire. **


 * By Karl Liebknecht **

====I believe this means that there was so much imperialism going on at the time that once one group sees that it's working then another group will try it too. Its just like a domino affect and evetually it's all over they world and theres no stopping it. Once it happens, it sucks the life out of anybody who is affected by it. __Imperialism is strong and it affects people very much.__==== __[|Chiese Terms]__ __5/30/14__ __WHITE MANS BURDEN__ 1. According to Kipling, and in your own words, what was the “White Man’s Burden”? To me I thought the white mans burden was the burden of having to go to war with other countries and have to deal with the whole communist and nationalist threats everywhere. **- White nations such as America and Europe had a duty to give them their culture and language.**

2. What reward did Kipling suggest the “White Man” gets for carrying his “burden”? I think he said that you recieve the gift of wisdom, you search for your man hood, and and better judgement of whats wrong and right. **- They spanded across oceans**

3. Who did Kipling think would read his poem? What do you think that this audience might have said in response to it? The people who dont see that fighting a war is stressful on anyman or woman, but he specifizes that in this poem hes talking about a white man. I'm not sure what they may have said to be honest. But hopefully this opened their eyes and made them apperciate them more because they do so much for us to be safe and free. **- he was looking for the responce of government officals. if you were a imperialism you agreed with the poem.**

4. What lines of the poem did you find the most interesting and why?

This shows that the feared terror every day but still showed pride.

BLACK MANS BURDEN

The message of this poem is that the europeans (white men) are trying to go in and help the black men and it clearly aren't helping tehm and its just a burden of each side because its an unnecassary action were taking and the blacks aren't as up to date as us with technology so they're basically fighting with bare hands.

Hail ye your fearless armies,

Which menace feeble folks

Who fight with clubs and arrows

and brook your rifle’s smoke.

I thought this was showing how the blacks did not want them to come in and "help" because they weren't actually helping. they were making things worse. Also it shows that they were not as high up in technology as whites and it was just a burden for everyone.

=__6/2/14__=

// " // Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered that has made it possible for evil to triumph." Haille Selassie, Ethiopian emperor, 1892-1975 Questions to consider :

The perspective of the author is that he believes that standing up for what you think is right is a huge part in having power and if you can't do so, you will be over written by many others. Other events that might make him think the way he does could of been being defeated in other political battles because he did not stand up and act on what he thought was right. __He believed that it was too much of a bother. They had a strong government and they had money to make their army better then everyone else. __
 * What is the perspective of the author? What events might have caused the author to think as he does?

Maybe the author went through a situation where they didn't move on and action or thought and was defeated by evil and things went bad. __He saw all these countries get defeated and it was a statement to the world asking why they were letting it happen right before their eyes because it wasn't fair. __ The quote relates to imperialism in Africa because people never knew how to stand up for what they believed in so they were eventually defeated in a political battle of imperialism. (the people that were against it anyways) __Hes pretty much telling them "what are you doing" __
 * Why might the author be making this statement?
 * How does the quote relate to Imperialism in Africa? Explain.


 * "On French Colonial Expansion" A Speech before the French Chamber of Deputies, March 28, 1884, by Jules Ferry (1832-1893): Ferry was twice prime minister of France, from (1880-1881, 1883-1885)**

//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 race races have a right because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races...In the history of earlier centuries these duties gentlemen have been misunderstood; and certainly when the Spanish soldiers and explorers introduced slavery into Central America, they did not fulfill their duty as men of a higher race....But inour time, I maintain that European nations acquit themselves with generosity, with grandeur, and with sincerity of this superior civilizing duty.//

//I say that French colonial policy, the policy of colonial expansion, the policy that has taken us under the Empire, that has led us to Tunisia, to Madagascar- I say this policy of colonial expansion was inspired by...the fact that a navy such as ours cannot do withtout safe harbors, defenses, supply centers on the high seas...Are you unaware of this? Look at the map of the world.//

The author is Jules Ferry who was prime minister of France not only once but twice. His view point was that only the higher race should have rights because they "have duties" to tale care of unlike the other races that are lower. when the Spanish soldiers and explorers introduced slavery into Central America they did not fulfill their duties of the higher race.
 * Who is the author of this piece of evidence? What is his viewpoint?
 * What justifications does he offer to support his viewpoint?
 * Why might he be giving this speech? What is the purpose of this speech?

They were very racist at the time and did not allow they lower races do anything but listen to the higher races because they high races were in charge.
 * What does the speech tell you about life and attitudes of that time?

"The Rhodes of Colossus: Striding from Cape Town to Cairo" Published in Punch, or the London Charivari, December 10, 1982. Artists: Linley Sambourne

"//**Moshweshewe: Letter ton Sir George Grey, 1858" written by Mark X of Moshweshewe, Chief of the Basutos**//.
 * Where and when was this political cartoon published? What impact might this have on its perspective and bias?
 * What meaning does the title give to the Illustration? Why might the author have chosen the words he did/ (colossus, striding, Cape Town and Cairo)
 * Who is being depicted in this political cartoon? (research cartoon) What objects do you see?
 * What is the artists viewpoint? What evidence from the political cartoon supports your claim?