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Great Britain imperialism
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Great Britain Imperialism
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The british empire grew large and wide
The Impact
positive
- schools/colleges/ literary increased
- sanitation and public health improves
- end of local warfare
negative
- famines
- the cash crop resulted in loss of self-sufficiency for many villagers
colonial empire ruled
In 1858 after the Sepoy mutiny the British took direct control of India those areas were called Raj. A cabinet minister in London directed policy and a British governor general in India carried out the governments order.
Great Game War
Great Britain vs. Russia over the Muslim lands in central Asia over India. Russia wanted to expand and India riches . Brits defended and spread their empire out wards. Afghanistan was the center of the struggle. After decades of fighting Great Britain withdrew in 1881. In 1921, GB agreed to only expand its empire to the Khyber pass and no further.
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Winston Churchill
important individual
- Cecil Rhodes
- Menelik II
Winston Churchill was a soldier that became a war correspondent for the newspaper on his experiences. He was captured during the Boar war but he got away eventually. He has wrote a few books on wars.
British territory gain and loss
timeline
- Industrial Revolution- 18th century
- 1763- Great Britain gains control of India.
- Early 1800s- control of Cape colony
- 1839-1842- Opium war ends with treaty of Nanking
- 1857- The Sepoy Mutiny against British rule in India takes place.
- 1858- India comes under direct rule of Great Britain.
- 1875- GB gains control of Suez canal and begins to establish a protectorate of Egypt. ( in 1882)
- 1884-1885- the Berlin Conference. (splitting of Africa for European countries)
- 1899-1902- The Boer war.
- 1910- South Africa is established as an independent country.
- 1952- Nasser and Egypt over throw british rule.
Start
Great Britain are in the race to get more natural
resources to expand their industrialization before their european competitors.
background
- After people starting adopting the British miracle ( copy British industrialization) it became a race for all countries to get more natural resources to produce more stuff to get more money.
- Great Britain created vaccines to protected themselves from the many diseases in Africa.
- They traveled by steam engine to explore more land.
citation
http://howellworldhistory.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/imperialism-timeline/
http://www.historyteacher.net/EuroProjects/DBQ1998-1999/Chronology18-99.htm