THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM

  • The chemical industry

    The chemical industry
    New industries were developed, one of this was the chemical industry. First vaccines were created in this year
  • Economic Interest

    Economic Interest
    Industrialized European countries needed two things: Raw materials and colonial products. But they also needed a captive market.
  • Electricity, new energy

    Electricity, new energy
    The invention of the alternators and transformers, new way of creating energy.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    It is an electrical device capable of transmitting text messages. To do this, it uses coding, using Morse code, in electrically emitted signals.
  • Exploration and Conquest

    Exploration and Conquest
    The Age of Exploration led to the imperialization of Africa because as countries explored more of Africa and the East, it allowed the Europeans to slowly conquer the African nations on the shield to make exploration and trade easier. As the years passed, they began to conquer the moreinland, of which countries such as France, Belgium and Great Britain were the majority colonizers.
  • Colonial Organisation

    Colonial exploration required a push that added to the indigenes who had to be netropole gave some indigenous antonomy.
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    Growing population

    In general, the population increased as a result of declining mortality, brought about by the introduction of modern Western medicine and persistently high birth rates.
  • Creation of telephone

    Creation of telephone
    The first telephone was created by Antonio Meucci for an office with his bedroom so that he could talk to his wife, who was immobilized in bed due to illness. And now everyone uses it and we would be unable to live without it.
  • Dynamo

    Dynamo
    Machine (transformer) utilized for transform the rotation mechanism in energy and electricity
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    Second Industrial Revolution

    In the second half of 19th Europe had a second industrial revolution, thanks to the advances in production,trade and transport. Europe used its technology, armies and finances to conquer the over territories.
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    Population explosion in Europe

    Thanks to the industrial revolution, there was an economic improvement among the middle and lower classes which caused an increase in the population.
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    Imperialism

    The European countries use their advanced economies, armies and technology to take over territories with no state organization like Asia or Africa. More specifically, the expression Era of Imperialism, used by historiography, refers to the period from 1871 to 1914, when there was a real race to build colonial empires, mainly with the so-called division of Africa.
  • Incandescent light bulb

    Incandescent light bulb
    Through an electric current the metal, Tunsgan, inside the glass is heated. This current causes the metal to glow and radiate light.
  • Colonial Powers

    Colonial Powers
    Berlin conference (1883) The conference took place in 1884 and instituted: independent navigation on African rivers; the occupation of the interior from the occupied stretch of coastline inland; the positive and physical occupation, by military means, of the region, so that it could be considered part of the empire. During this and the following year, the conditions for the positive occupation of the region were established.
  • Oli, new energy

    Oli, new energy
    The invention of the combustion engine led to us for cars
  • Development of Automotive and Aviation

    Development of Automotive and Aviation
    New areas were developed, one of this was the Automovie and aviation. First cars and were created in this year
  • Aluminum industry

    Aluminum industry
    New industries were developed, one of this was the Aluminium industry. Start to use the aluminium to cresate more objects.
  • Rivalry between powers

    Rivalry between powers
    Imperialism was a political-economic doctrine based on the territorial expansion of the major European powers (England, France, Germany) over other states or communities in Asia, Africa and Oceania.
  • Emigration and life in the colinies

    Emigration and life in the colinies
    Europeans emigrated due to population growth
  • The myth of the master race

    The myth of the master race
    During Europe's colonial expansion, colonised populations were racialised, establishing a racial hierarchy in order to ideologically justify their total domination. Apart, Europeans, whites, considered themselves as a superior race.
  • Taylorism

    Taylorism
    A factory system developed in the late 19th century to increase the efficiency of each step of a manufacturing process and divide production into repetitive tasks.