The document summarizes the second wave of European colonial conquests from 1750-1900. It involved new European powers like Germany, Italy, Belgium, the US, and Japan expanding their colonies to South and Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Pacific Islands. The colonies were divided into "white colonies" like Canada, Australia and New Zealand that were settlements for Europeans, and "non-white colonies" in Asia and Africa that were ruled indirectly through local elites but controlled by European governments from abroad. By the late 1800s, European powers had partitioned most of Africa at the Berlin Conference and established control over 90% of the land by 1914.

1. SECOND WAVE of European
conquests in ASIA and AFRICA
The period 1750–1900 saw a second,
distinct phase of European colonial
conquest.
It was focused on South and Southeast
Asia, Africa, and Pacific Islands
 It involved several new players like
Germany, Italy, Belgium, U.S., and Japan

2. “White” Colonies
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South
Africa
 Populated mainly by people that moved
there from Britain
 Given self-rule

4. “Non-white” Colonies in Asia &
Africa
 Under indirect rule
 Populated mainly by people who are native to
the area
 Few people from Western nations actually live
there – but control the government

6. Western
nations:
 Relied on
native elites
to directly
rule and
native
soldiers to
enforce laws

8. The partition of Africa 1880s

9. Scramble for Africa
 Berlin Conference in 1885 set rules for
European colonization of Africa
 Africans in decentralized societies w/ no
formal state structure held out the
longest against European conquest
 By 1914, 90% of Africa was under
European control

10. • See if you can identify part of the problem
with colonization.

11. •By 1910, 10,000
missionaries in
Africa
•(By the 1960s, 50
million Africans
were Christian)

16. Consequences of the Scramble
for Africa
 Traditional way of life disrupted
 Economic exploitation of Africans
 European racism imported into Africa
 Spread of European culture
(education and religion)
 Spread of Western technology
 Change in women’s roles

17. The Rhodes
Colossus
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18. British control of India

19. British Imperialism in India
 Britain trading in India since 1600s
British East India Co. gradually took
over parts of India

21. Growth of British Power in India

22. SEPOYS

24. DIRECT British control began
1858
•Indian soldiers or
“sepoys” rebelled
against the British
leadership.
•After the violence
ended, the British
government direct
took control of India.
•BRITISH RAJ

25. A British Merchant's Home in Colonial India

26. Consequences of British
Imperialism in India
 British educational system established
 Rise of educated Indian middle class -
eventually politically active
 Hinduism more “defined”
 Spread of English language
 Railroads tied India together

27. Question of the Day
 What was distinctive about European
colonial empires of the nineteenth century
(as opposed to earlier empires in history)?

28. What is being
advertised?
Where is this taking
place?
What is going on?
What are the ways
that this image
symbolizes or give
characteristics of
Imperialism? (3
things)
Who was the queen
at the time?
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