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Old imperialism 1600-1800
Was a single nation used to control large Geographical areas. The people of the land conquered by Spain were subjected to forced labor, whereas Britain had established a policy of limited self-rule. -
Doc. David Livingstone 1813-1873
David Livingstone was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. -
New imperialism 1830-1914
New Imperialism characterizes a period of colonial expansion by Western European powers, the United States, Russia, and Japan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The period featured an unprecedented pursuit of overseas territorial acquisitions. -
Opium Wars 1839-1860
The Opium Wars were two wars waged between the Qing dynasty and Western powers in the mid-19th century. -
Treaty of Nanking 1842-1856
The Treaty of Nanking was a peace treaty which ended the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and China on 29 August 1842. It was the first of what the Chinese later called the unequal treaties -
Cape Colony 1850-1851
The Cape of Good Hope, also known as the Cape Colony, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope -
Sepoy Mutiny 1857-1858
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major, but ultimately unsuccessful, the uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown -
H.M Stanley. 1871 - 1877
Henry Morton Stanley, in full Sir Henry Morton Stanley, original name John Rowlands, Congolese byname Bula Matari (“Breaker of Rocks”), (born January 28, 1841, Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales—died May 10, 1904, London, England), British American explorer of central Africa, famous for his rescue of the Scottish missionary -
Belgian Congo 1874-1908
The Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. The former colony adopted its present name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1964. Colonial rule in the Congo began in the late 19th century -
Social Darwinism 1877-2013
Social Darwinism describes the various theories that emerged in Western Europe and North America in the 1870s which applied biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics, and politics.
