Berlin Conference
White Man’s Burden
Scramble for Africa
Causes of New Imperialism
Imperialism
Tanzimat
Muhammad Ali
Western industrialization
Young Turks
The possession of colonies became important for political and diplomatic reasons and a militaristic drive for national power and prestige increased the speed and ferocity of the New Imperialism.
The Ottoman Empire’s declining international power and conservative tyranny led to a resurgence of a desire for modernization among idealistic Turkish exiles and young army officers in Istanbul, the capital.
To pay for the industrialization of Egypt blank took land from religious institutions and forced peasants to grow cash crops that the government bought cheaply and exported for profit.
Subdued foreign peoples with their military superiority, controlled them with authoritarian governments and exploited their natural resources with their advanced technologies.
Germany’s emergence as an imperial power in the late 19th century initiated the process historians refer to as the blank.
Western nations used their military power to force nations to open their economies to Western economic interests, and the great majority of the new wealth flowed to them and created a vast difference between rich and poor countries.
Britain, France, and Belgium had already begun the conquest of Africa when Bismarck called for the blank (1884-1885) where the European powers met to sort out their differences in order to avoid armed conflict between them.
Sultan Mahmud II began the blank: a set of radical reforms designed to westernize the Ottoman Empire. Called for equality of Muslims, Christians, and Jews before the law and in business.
The belief that Europeans should civilize more primitive, nonwhite peoples and that imperialism would eventually provide them with higher standards of living and prepare them for self-government along the lines of Western democracy
