Causes of Imperialism: Industrial Revolution Nationalism 3) Social Darwinism

1. Causes of Imperialism: • Industrial Revolution • Nationalism • 3) Social Darwinism • 4) White Man’s Burden

2. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

3. WHAT INDUSTRY NEEDS

4. AND TO KEEP PROFITS HIGH

5. NATIONALISM Countries proved how great they were by taking over colonies This became a competition The more colonies a country had, the more powerful it was considered to be So, what countries had the most colonies?

6. Social Darwinism said that strong people should rule over weak people…

7. One English writer put it this way: “Whatever happens, we have gotthe Maxim gun, and they have not.”

8. Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book, was an Anglo-Indian – an Englishman who was born in India. His ideas about imperialism can be seen in a poem he wrote in 1889, called The White Man’s Burden: “Take up the White Man’s Burden – Send forth the best ye breed – Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need; To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild – Your new caught, sullen peoples Half devil and half-child.”

9. The White Man’s Burden was the idea that Europeans had to conquer the rest of the world, to spread the benefits of Western Civilization. This was supposed to help them…

10. WHAT WAS THE REAL MOTIVE?