TCI Motives

1. Analyzing Imperial Motives

3. Image: A
Open-shaft diamond mining in South Africa.
Economic: African labor, exploiting natural resources for profit
Ideological: Europeans treating Africans as inferior

4. Image B
A Methodist Sunday School, Angola
Religious: Europeans spreading Christian values and education
Ideological: teaching European customs and beliefs

5. IMAGE C
“The Rhodes Colossus” showing Cecil Rhodes vision of making Africa “all
British from Cape to Cairo,” 1892
Political: desire to control Africa, winning colonies, military presence
Exploratory: venturing into unknown lands

6. Image: D
Africans bringing ivory to the wagons in South Africa
Economic: Collecting African resources

7. IMAGE E
King Leopold II, coiled around Congo natives
Economical: controlling the rubber trade for European machines

8. IMAGE F
Advertisement for
Pear’s Soap from
1890’s
Ideological:
European superiority,
“civilize” captured
peoples, cleanse
“dark corners”
Economical: boats
transporting goods,
ad to sell

9. IMAGE: G
British Lipton Tea ad in the 1890s
Economic: from Ceylon to London, use of indigenous labor
Political: gaining international power through trade

10. IMAGE: H
Victims of Famine
Economical: Cotton is King

11. Image: I
The scramble for Africa
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