Chronology: 1870-1914
Main Topic: Creation and expanison of the great territorial empires
THE COLONIAL EMPIRES
European powers:
-The United Kingdom, France, Germnay, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Italy and The Netherlands
American Powers:
-The United States
Asian Powers:
-Japan, Russia
The British Empire:
- The largest colonial empire
- North America, Asia, Africa and Oceania, the most important possessions were Australia, and India
The French Empire:
- Second Empire in size and wealth
- Africa and Asia
THE CAUSES OF THE IMPERIAL EXPANSION
- Expansion of the finance capitalism : New markets and population
- The Industrial development: Raw materials
- Political reasons: Prestige and maintainance of the international status quo
- Demography: growing european population was encouraged to emigrate to the colonies
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE IMPERIALISM
- The world was divided into the colonised and the colonisers
- Native population segregation
- Rivalriy between the nations (leading to the 1st World War)
- Imbalanced economy and exploitation of the un
Main Topic: Creation and expanison of the great territorial empires
THE COLONIAL EMPIRES
European powers:
-The United Kingdom, France, Germnay, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Italy and The Netherlands
American Powers:
-The United States
Asian Powers:
-Japan, Russia
The British Empire:
- The largest colonial empire
- North America, Asia, Africa and Oceania, the most important possessions were Australia, and India
The French Empire:
- Second Empire in size and wealth
- Africa and Asia
THE CAUSES OF THE IMPERIAL EXPANSION
- Expansion of the finance capitalism : New markets and population
- The Industrial development: Raw materials
- Political reasons: Prestige and maintainance of the international status quo
- Demography: growing european population was encouraged to emigrate to the colonies
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE IMPERIALISM
- The world was divided into the colonised and the colonisers
- Native population segregation
- Rivalriy between the nations (leading to the 1st World War)
- Imbalanced economy and exploitation of the un