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Imperialism
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This is Crash Course World History and today we're going to discuss 19th century Imperialism.발음듣기
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Let's begin with China. When last we checked in, China was thriving manufacturing power about to be overtaken by Europe but still heavily involved in world trade especially as an importer of silver from the Spanish Empire.발음듣기
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Europeans had to use silver because they didn't really produce anything else the Chinese wanted.발음듣기
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For example, in 1793, the McCartney mission tried to get better trade conditions with China and was a total failure.발음듣기
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Here's the Qianlong emperor's well-known response to the British:"Hitherto, all European nations, "including your own country's barbarian merchants, "have carried on their trade with our Celestial Empire at Canton.발음듣기
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Such has been the procedure for many years, although our Celestial Empire possesses all things in prolific abundance "and lacks no product within its own borders."발음듣기
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By the 1830's British free trade policy unleashed a flood of opium in China which threatened China's favorable balance of trade.발음듣기
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Then in 1839, the Chinese responded to what they saw as these unfair trade practices with a stern letter that they never actually sent.발음듣기
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Commissioner Lin Zexu drafted a response that contained a memorable threat to cut off trade in rhubarb, silk and tea, all valuable products of ours without which foreigners could not live.발음듣기
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But even if the British had received this terrifying threat to their precious rhubarb supply, they probably wouldn't have responded because selling drugs is super lucrative.발음듣기
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The Chinese made like tea partiers, confiscating a bunch of British opium and chucking it into the sea.발음듣기
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Then, the British responded to this by demanding compensation and access to the Chinese territory where they could carry out their trade.발음듣기
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Chinese General Yijing made a counterattack in 1842 that included a detailed plan to catapult flaming monkeys onto British ships.발음듣기
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Stan, is that true? All right, apparently the plans involved strapping fireworks to monkey's backs and were never carried out, but still.발음듣기
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I'm just saying that flaming monkeys lend themselves to a lot of great band names like the Sizzling Simians, Burning Bonobos, Immolated Marmoset.발음듣기
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Stan, sometimes I feel like I should give up teaching world history and just become a band name generator. That's my real gift.발음듣기
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Anyway, due to lack of monkey fireworks, the Chinese counterattacks were unsuccessful and they eventually signed the Treaty of Nanjing which stated that Britain got Hong Kong and 5 other treaty ports as well as the equivalent of $2 billion in cash.발음듣기
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Also, the Chinese basically gave up all sovereignty to European spheres of influence wherein Europeans were subject to their laws not Chinese laws.발음듣기
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You might think the result of this war would be a shift in the balance of trade in Britain's favor but that wasn't immediately the case.발음듣기
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In fact, the British were importing so much tea from China that the trade deficit actually rose more than $30 billion.발음듣기
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But eventually, after another war and one of the most destructive civil rebellions in Chinese and possibly world history, the Taiping Rebellion, the situation was reversed and Europeans, especially the British became the dominant economic power in China.발음듣기
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Okay, so, but when we think about 19th century imperialism, we usually think about the way that Europe turned Africa from this into this, the so-called Scramble for Africa.발음듣기
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Speaking of scrambles and European colonization of Africa, you know what they say, sometimes to make an omelet, you've got to break a few eggs.발음듣기
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Europeans had been involved in Africa since the 16th century when the Portuguese used their cannons to take control of cities on coasts to set up their trading post empire.발음듣기
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But in the second half of the 19th century, Europe suddenly and spectacularly succeeded at colonizing basically all of Africa.발음듣기
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Why? Well, the biggest reason that Europeans were able to extend their grasp over so much of the world was the same reason they wanted to do so in the first place:Industrialization.발음듣기
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European states saw it as a real bonus to be able to say that they had colonies so much so that children's rhyme in an ABC for Baby Patriots went, "C is for Colonies.발음듣기
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But it was mostly, not to get all Marxist on you or anything, about controlling the means of production.발음듣기
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Europeans wanted colonies to secure sources of raw materials, especially cotton, copper, iron and rubber, that were used to fuel their growing industrial economies.발음듣기
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In addition to proving the motive for imperialism, European industrialization also provided the means.발음듣기
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Europeans didn't fail to take over territory in Africa until the late 19th century because they didn't want to.발음듣기
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Unlike in the Americas, Africans weren't devastated by diseases like smallpox because they'd had smallpox for centuries and were just as immune to it as Europeans were.발음듣기
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Including yellow fever, malaria and sleeping sickness, all of which killed Europeans in staggering numbers.발음듣기
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Also, nagana was a disease endemic to Africa that killed horses, which made it difficult for Europeans to take advantage of African grasslands and also difficult for them to get inland because their horses would die as they tried to carry stuff.발음듣기
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Also, while in the 16th century, Europeans did have guns, they were pretty useless, especially without horses so most fighting was done the old fashioned way, with swords.발음듣기
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That worked pretty well in the Americas unless you were the Incas or the Aztecs but it didn't work in Africa because the Africans also had swords spears and axes.발음듣기
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As much as they might have wanted to colonize Africa in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, Africa's mosquitoes, microbes and people were too much for them. What made the difference? Technology.발음듣기
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First, steamships made it possible for Europeans to travel inland bringing supplies and personnel via Africa's navigable rivers. No horses? No problem.발음듣기
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Even more important was quinine medicine, sometimes in the form of tonic water mixed into refreshing, quintessentially British gin and tonics.발음듣기
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Quinine isn't as effective as modern anti-malarial medication and it doesn't cure the disease but it does help moderate its effects.발음듣기
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But of course, the most important technology that enabled Europeans to dominate Africa was guns.발음듣기
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By the 19th century, European gun technology had improved dramatically, especially with the introduction of the Maxim machine gun which allowed Europeans to wipe out Africans in battle after battle.발음듣기
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Of course, machine guns were too effective when wielded by Africans, too, but Africans had fewer of them.발음듣기
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It's not so much that you invented the Maxim machine gun, although obviously that's a little bit problematic or even that you look like the poor man's Colonel Sanders.발음듣기
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Secondly, you were born an American but then became a Brit thereby metaphorically machine gunning our founding fathers.발음듣기
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Most importantly, among your many inventions was the successful amusement park ride, the Captive Flying Machine.발음듣기
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Best wishes, John Green. All right, so, here is something that often gets overlooked:European imperialism involved a lot of fighting and a lot of dying.발음듣기
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When we say that Europe came to dominate Africa, for the most part that domination came through wars which killed lots of Africans and also lots of Europeans, although most of them died from disease.발음듣기
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It's very, very important to remember that Africans did not meekly acquiesce to European hegemony.발음듣기
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They resisted, often violently, but ultiately they were defeated by a technologically superior enemy.발음듣기
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In this respect, they were a lot like the Chinese, and also the Indians and the Vietnamese and, you get the picture.발음듣기
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By the end of the 19th century, most of Afirca and much of Asia had been colonized by European powers.발음듣기
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I mean, even Belgium got in on it and they weren't even a country at the beginning of the 19th century.발음듣기
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It's tempting to imagine Europe ruling their colonies with the proverbial topaz fist and while there was always the threat of violence, the truth is a lot more complicated.발음듣기
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In most cases, Europeans ruled their colonies with the help of and sometimes completely through, intermediaries and collaborators.발음듣기
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The vast majority of British troops at any given time in India, more than 2/3, were in fact, Indians under the command of British officers.발음듣기
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Because of their small numbers relative to local populations, most European colonizers resorted to indirect rule, relying on the governments that were already there but exerting control over their leaders.발음듣기
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Frederick Lugard, who was Britain's head honcho in Nigeria for a time, called this rule through and by the natives.발음듣기
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This worked particularly well with British administrators who were primarily middle class men but had aristocratic pretensions and were often pleased to associate with the highest echelons of Indian or African society.발음듣기
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Now, this isn't to say that indigenous rulers were simply puppets. Often they retained real power.발음듣기
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This was certainly true in India, where more than a third of their territory was ruled by Indian princes.발음듣기
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The French protectorates of Morocco and Tunisia were ruled by Arab monarchs and the French also ruled through native kings in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.발음듣기
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For the most part Europeans could almost always rely on their superior military technology to coerce local rulers into doing what the Europeans wanted and they could replace native officials with Europeans if they had to, but in general they preferred to rule indirectly. It was easier and cheaper.발음듣기
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Thanks, Thought Bubble. While we can't know why all native princes who ruled in the context of European imperialism put up with it, we can make some pretty good guesses.발음듣기
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Many were also able to gain advantages through their service like access to European education for themselves and for their children.발음듣기
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Mahatma Gandhi, for instance, was the son of an Indian high official, which made it possible for him to study law in England.발음듣기
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I'm reminded of the famous couplet:"Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun and they have not."발음듣기
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For example, it took 25 years, from 1845 to 1870, for the British to fully defeat the Maori on New Zealand because the Maori were kick-ass fighters who had mastered musketry and defensive warfare.발음듣기
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In fact it took them being outnumbered 3 to 1 with the arrival of 750,000 settlers for the Maori to finally capitulate.발음듣기
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Those of you more familiar with U.S. history might notice a parallel between the Maori and some of the Native American tribes like the Apaches and the Lakota, a good reminder that the United States did some imperial expansion of its own as part of its nationalizing project in the 19th century.발음듣기
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But back to Africa. Sometimes African rulers were so good at adapting European technology that they were able to successfully resist imperialism.발음듣기
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Ethiopia's Menelik II defeated the Italians in battle, securing not just independence but an empire of his own.발음듣기
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But embracing European style modernization could also be problematic as Khedive Ismail of Egypt found out during his rule in the late 19th century.발음듣기
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He celebrated his imperial success by commissioning an opera, Guiseppe Verdi's Aida for the opening of the Cairo Opera House in 1871.발음듣기
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And Ismail had ambitions of extending Egypt's control up the Nile west toward Lake Chad but to do that, he needed money and that's where he got into trouble.발음듣기
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His borrowing bankrupted Egypt and led to Britain's taking control over the country's finances and its shares in the Suez Canal that Ismail had built with French engineers and French capital in 1869.발음듣기
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The British sent in 1,300 bureaucrats to fix Egypt's finances, an invasion of red tape that led to a nationalist uprising which brought on a full scale British intervention after 1881 in order to protect British interests.발음듣기
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This business imperialism, as it is sometimes known, is really at the heart of the imperialistic impulse.발음듣기
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Industrialized nations push economic integration upon developing nations, and then extract value from those developing nations, just as you would from a mine or a field you owned.발음듣기
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As western corporations grew in the latter part of the 19th century, their influence grew as well, both in their home countries and in the lands where they were investing.발음듣기
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Ultimately, whether the colonizer is a business enterprise or a political one, the complicated legacy of imperialism survives.발음듣기
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It's why your bananas are cheap, why your call centers are Indian, why your chocolates comes from Africa and why everything else comes from China.발음듣기
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