Imperialism

Homework 11/114/10 Historical and Modern Examples of Imperialism:

Historical: http://www.suite101.com/atricle.cfm/colonial_legacies/53451

In the late 1800's, European countries such as England, France, Germany, Belgium and Italy split Africa up into spheres of influence so much that only Ethiopia remained untouched. They wanted to get more land, get rid of excess capital from the Industrial Revolution and to even "civilize" the people there.

Modern: http://www.suite101.com/content/modern-imperialism-and-its-impact-a222745

The United States is looking toward oil-rich countries in the Middle East/South America and is currently occupying places like Iraq to to try to spread democracy rather than to gain land.

Article from textbook: 11/16/10: Those who keep up to date with weaponry will easily defeat armies without advanced weaponry. However, the killing actually may become boring rather than exciting as British troops found out.

CCQ: It's amazing how the army of 320 beat an army of 12000 just because they had advanced weapons! CCQ: It's sad how they actually got bored by killing people, it's unbelievable!

They thought they were better because they had machine guns and believed God allowed them to take "lesser" nations.

Homework 11/16/10 Checking another Imperialism website to see if it's potentially reliable or not. Site: http://www.michaelparenti.org/Imperialism101.html 1) Has a name in the URL, domain is .org 2) Truncated site is a bio on publisher Michael Parenti. Info is from 1992-2005, so it could be dusty/stale. 3) No sources! 4) According to alexa.com, the site actually has a lot of worldwide visitors, but not a whole of people linked to it. 5) Gut feeling: This is a biased and therefore unreliable source of information!

11-17-10 Video on evolution. I think that showed what most scientist believe is evolution.

What makes one country better than another? A country that has more money, people claiming loyalty to it, tourists, immigrants, advanced weapons and technology in general is a better country than one that doesn't have as much of these things.

European's believe with their advanced weaponry that they can rule the world.

Identification of bias in regentsprep Only talks about European Imperialism Doesn't go into detail about these "weaker" nations and what they were doing while Europe was industrializing. Doesn't explain the full result of Imperialism, only what happened to the European nations who took over others.

Homework 11/17/10 Was European Social Darwinism Justified? (Be Objective)

Despite the fact that many innocent people died at the hands of the Europeans and their advanced weaponry, I believe the Social Darwinism was justified. If the Europeans didn't go out, explore and take over new lands, the world as we know may have been different. For example, even though people that lived where the U.S is today probably didn't get totally blown to pieces by machine guns, most likely the U.S wouldn't exist without the British imperializing and subsequently colonizing. Also, those nations taken over by the Europeans may not have been able to learn new concepts of European culture, trade, government, etc if this Social Darwinism didn't happen. On the contrary, the Europeans also may have gained valuable knowledge from the people they took over whether they realized/accepted it or not.

Regents Crocodoc Mark Up Chinese Imperialism Content Response Notes Marked Up Chinese Letter to Queen Victoria with Crocodoc https://crocodoc.com/jduFb

1) Zixu's argument against the British smuggling of Opium was pretty much explaining the obvious unfairness of the situation and rejecting England's rule and punish those who sell or smoke Opium with the death penalty. 2) Zixu's attitude toward the British is respectful as he compliments them on their country, power and culture but he also compares them to barbarians and starts to threaten them with new laws regarding Opium. 3) This document tells us that the relations between China and the West in the 19th Century were testy but showed signs that they wanted to work together peacefully and accept their different views on Opium.