Kathleen Dailey assignment 2, option6

1. Berlin Conference

2. • Happened in 1884
• Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium,
United States, Ottoman Empire
• Decided how to split up Africa – had to
establish a government there first.

3. The Sun never sets on the British
Empire

5. Commodore Matthew Perry
• Who knocked on
Japan’s door and said…
• “Hi, let me in and stop
beating up my
shipwrecked sailors!”
• What were the terms of
the Treaty of
Kanagawa?

6. How does Japan react?

7. What’s this?
British citizens had the
right to live under
British law and be tried
in British courts even
though they lived in
China
China agreed to this in
the Treaty of Tiensin
????

8. EXTRATERRATORIALITY

9. What’s this?
• Survival of the fittest
• It’s only natural that
the stronger people
overpower the weaker
people…
• White Man’s Burden

10. SOCIAL DARWINISM

11. • When the colonies exist for the benefit of the
mother country?
• Sound familiar?
• Think…..
• Ready?

12. MERCANTILISM