Settlement, exploitation,

and spheres of influence.

Review:As you saw in the DBQ, there

are 3 main motives for imperialism:

1)Economic Resources, labor, new markets

2)Social Religious, ideological, to

expand your culture

3)Political Military expansion, exploration,

idea of ‘glory and power’

Imperialism in Action:Whatever the reason empires came to

conquer, those 3 reasons led to 3 general types of colonies/influence.1. Settlement2. Exploitation3. Spheres of Influence

Settlement ColoniesThe empire tries to make the colony another

version of itself. Men, women and children all emigrate to the

new colony.Often in search of land and new

opportunities.Examples:

CanadaSouth Africa

Exploitation ColoniesUsually in places that would be inhospitable

to move in settlersFocused on obtaining raw or human

resourcesOften involved using native populations as

slave workers.Example:

Belgian Congo“Rhodesia”Nigeria

Spheres of InfluenceUnofficially, but effectively, controlled from

the outside (Not technically colonies)Desire to keep trade and interaction open

without removing local infrastructure.“Mafia” analogyExample:

China

Different Levels of Control:Direct

Officials/soldiers from home countryFrench

IndirectLocal rulers, but “Westernized”British

ProtectorateLike indirect- local rulersExpected to do what European

advisers wanted.

How could they get away with this?

Maxim Machine Gun-1884

“The White Man’s Burden”by Rudyard Kipling, 1899

Take up the White Man's burden--Send forth the best ye breed--Go bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives' need;To wait in heavy harness,On fluttered folk and wild--Your new-caught, sullen peoples,Half-devil and half-child.

“Martyr”by David Diop, one of West Africa’s best known poetsThe White Man killed my father,My father was proud.The White Man seduced my mother,My mother was beautiful.The White Man burnt my brother beneath the noonday sun.My brother was strong.His hands red with black bloodThe White Man turned to me:And in the Conqueror’s voice said,“Boy! A chair, a napkin, a drink.”