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• What is a colony?
a) TrueFalse
b) TrueFalse
c) TrueFalse
d) TrueFalse
e) TrueFalse
Discuss with a partner the relationship between imperialism and the belief in the supremacy of white people. What was this belief based on?
Look at the map below.
Look at the map.
• What were the Spanish territories in Africa?
Listen and say which stage of colonisation is being described.
Organisation of the colonial economy
Occupation by conquest
Political and administrative control
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b)
c)
Analyse the table of raw materials.
Read the two texts about Henry Morton Stanley’s meeting with a Sub-Saharan African tribe.
A large canoe approached my boat, as if planning to board it. About 50 metres away, it veered and, when it was almost in front of us, the warriors on the prow gave a shout and threw their lances. The noise was swallowed up by the sound of our guns firing. Our blood was boiling in our veins. This is an unforgiving world, and for the first time we felt hate. This is why we raised our anchor and chased after the cannibals.
P. Herrmann The Audacity and Heroism of Modern Discoveries, Labor (Adapted and translated)
When we found out that a white-skinned man was coming down the Luaba, we were shocked. […]
‘We will throw him a party; I ordered. ‘We will solemnly greet our brother and we will accompany him to the village’. We decorated ourselves and then met in large canoes. We set off [...] but as we approached the boat, we heard Bang! Bang! And the fire sticks threw iron at us. We were rigid with fear. This was not a brother but the worst enemy our people had ever faced.
Read about Delia Akeley.
Delia Akeley was born in 1876 in Wisconsin, USA. In 1905, she accompanied her husband, Carl Akeley, a taxidermist and photographer, on an elephant hunting mission in Africa organized by the Museum of Natural Art in New York. In 1924, after her divorce, she set off alone on an expedition across Africa from the east coast to the Atlantic Ocean, in exactly the opposite direction to David Livingstone in 1854. Financed by the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Science, she crossed the Belgian Congo, met the Mbuti tribe of pygmies in the Ituri jungle and crossed the Zambeze River without the help of guides or safari professionals. She was convinced that ‘a woman, alone and unarmed, could befriend African women and get valuable authentic information about their tribal customs.’ When she returned to New York, she published her work and photographs of the pygmies.
A. Lucas Pioneers, El Mundo (Translated)
Why was there rivalry between the colonising powers?
What were the characteristics of the economic exploitation of the colonies? Describe the economic system that was imposed.
Write in two columns, the positive and negative consequences of imperialism.
• Why was the Berlin Conference important?
Do some research about some colonial conflicts and make a table with these headings:
• Origin of conflict • Development • Consequences
Explain the relationship between colonial imperialism and the existence today of developing countries.
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