5 characteristics that allowed Europe to become the land of many
imperialist countries.
-Economic Growth: With the
Industrial Revolution in full swing, Europe was looking to bolster their trade
markets abroad. Thinking of it this way: in order to sell more goods, you need
more places to sell them. So, with this thinking in mind, the Europeans said to
themselves, 'What better place than Africa and Asia?' Along the same lines,
colonies on these continents were seen as great places to get cheap, raw
materials for Europe's factories.
-Europeans began to seek formal political
control over foreign and overseas areas: They were doing this also like the
economic growth, to have more places to sell their stuff and to increase in
money and in power.
-National
Rivalry: Along with economic growth, Europeans were spurred on by national rivalry. Since land equaled power,
the more land a country could acquire, the more prestige and power they could
wield across the globe. Adding to this, no country wanted to see an empire they
didn't trust gaining ground.
-Moral
Superiority: This leads us to the motivation of moral superiority. Not surprisingly, some
proponents of New Imperialism felt they had the moral right, if not
responsibility, to rule over the 'heathen, uncivilized' areas of Asia, and
especially Africa. This is plainly seen in the famous late 19th century poem 'The White Man's Burden' in which its author Rudyard Kipling calls the uncivilized,
colonized people 'half-devil and half-child.' To those with this mindset,
imperialism was seen as a way to enlighten and save the poor heathens from
themselves. With this attitude, it's easier to understand how the European
powers felt little to no compunction when dividing up Africa as seen in the Berlin Conference.
The start of dominance over other continents and countries:
Prior to the 19th century, Europe's interactions with Asia and Africa had
mostly been limited to holding trading posts on the continent. Content to make
money from these commercial outlets, Europe usually didn't impose direct rule
onto these areas.They started doing all this things to become more powerful
and rich.
By: Omar Rodríguez
Characteristics of the government system
The government was ruled by an emperor or empress. Although a country may have had its own government with natives in top political positions, it operated as the imperialist country told it to.
The government was sometimes a relatively permanent "puppet government," as happened in late Qing China, and other times the control was temporary, as occurred in the Dominican Republic when the United States ran its government until it got out of debt.
There was not any democracy because the governments were controlled by the imperialist countries although they had natives "ruling" their own countries.
By: Enrique Blackmore A01631822
Characteristics of the government system
The imperialists imposed an unequal human and territorial relationship, usually in the form of an empire, based on ideas of superiority and practices of dominance, and involving the extension of authority and control of one state or people over another. There were European empires in Asia and Africa for example Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico between others were colonies ruled by Spain.
Democracy wasn’t present because this government was imposed and not even by their own people but by a foreign country which was trying to rule over them.
By: Marines
Imperialism related to monopoly capitalism
The Imperialism according to
the dictionary is the policy of extending the authority of a nation over
foreign countries and the monopoly capitalism is a type of capitalism in which
the big companies rule an example in Mexico could be Telmex, well you may be
wondering the relation between those two, that what I’m about to explain.
The relation could be that in monopoly
capitalism big companies have great power so with the Imperialism they try to
extend though the country or to the world to have more power, also Vladimir
Lenin defined Imperialism as the most advanced state of capitalism.
By: Juan Pablo Elizarraraz Oliva A01632031
Most Important imperialist countries in Europe
By: Nicole Velázquez Ochoa
References:
Consequences of European Imperialism in the world
The Imperialism is the extending of autorithy over foreign countries, some conseuences of the European Imperialism could be:
-Loss of culture: If a country takes control of another one is going to establish their traditions and rules, and the ones of the other country would be lost.
-Over-explotation of natural resources: The country is not going to take care of the new one, maybe yes, but will only thing in getting resources to satisfy the necesities in the old territory.
-Slavery: The "natives" could be treat in a bad way, the even could treat them as slaves and make them feel inferior.
By: Juan Pablo Elizarraraz Oliva
References:
Examples of Imperialism. (n.d.). Retrieved October 15th, 2015, from http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-imperialism.html
Unknown autor. (Unknown date). Imperialism. 13/10/15, de Dictionary Sitio
web: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/imperialism
Unknown autor. (19 April 2013).
Imperialism: Monopoly Capitalism. 13/10/15, de International communist league
Sitio web: http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/1022/qotw.html
Unknown author. (s.f.). IMPERIALISM. Recuperado de:
http://www.historyhaven.com/APWH/unit%204/IMPERIALISM.htm
Foto [England]. (2015). Recuperado de: http//www.philosophersforchange.org/2015/02/17/the-new-imperialism/
Jessica Whittemore. (2015). European Imperialism: Characteristics, Motives & Effects. 15/10/2015, de study.com Sitio web: http://study.com/academy/lesson/european-imperialism-characteristics-motives-effects.html
