5.2 Europa gaat de wereld overheersen

5.2 Europe starts dominating the world
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5.2 Europe starts dominating the world

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Global economy
* Europe-> Africa, America en Asia
* Many colonies as possible
* Plantations -> tabacco, coffee, cotton
* Empires = Large world-scale state
* Modern imperialism

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Modern Imperialism
* 19th century
* Competition who can conquer the most areas in Asia and Africa

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4 Causes of modern imperialism

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1. Economically advantageous
* Needed raw materials
* Markets -> sell their products

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2. Increasingly easy to conquer and govern colonies

* Better weapons
* Distance less of a problem -> connections faster and more reliable

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3. An empire gave prestige and power

* People thought that an 'important' nation deserved a large overseas territory

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4. Feeling of superiority
* Europeans felt they were better 
* The right to rule other nations

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Feeling of superiority
* 16th century -> Thought Christianity was better than other religions
* 19th century -> 'White' people were in some way a better 'race' than people with other skin colour
* Racism
* No different races

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Song
* Frank Boeijen ; Black white
* 15  year old Antillian boy 1983 stabbed
* Celebrate his birthday
* 3 'white' boys
* Media speaks about racism
* Bedreigd

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Schedule a test
7 juni

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Assignments
Make the assignments from paragraph 5.2

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