Imp #3: South Africa1. What is imperialism?2. List 2 motives behind imperialism.3. List 2 European advantages over Africans

(such as inventions, technology, etc).4. What king overtook the nation of Congo &

established brutal methods for harvesting rubber?

South Africa● Native Africans, Dutch, British continually

clashed over land and resources in South Africa

South Africa• 1816 Shaka Zulu will keep Europs out of S.

Africa (Zulus: African tribe in S. Africa)

• 1887 Zulu lands were conquered by British (after Shaka’s death)

South Africa• 1652: Dutch first colonized Cape of Good Hope

(South Africa)

The Boers• Dutch settlers in South Africa• Dutch for “farmers” • Take S. Afr’s land & establish large farms

Great Trek• 1830’s Boers moved farther north into South

Africa to escape British

• Boers fought wars with Zulu tribe

& others whose land

they were taking

The Boer War (1899-1902)• 1860’s British wanted gold/diamonds from South

Africa

• Boers rebelled against the British in S. Africa 1899

The Boer War (1899-1902)• Boers used guerilla tactics (hit and run/hide and seek)

against the British

• British responded by burning Boer farms and imprisoning women and children in concentration camps

The Boer War (1899-1902)• 1902 Britain won

• Britain allowed Boers to have some self-government in S. Africa but Britain owned the colony of S. Afr

The Boer War (1899-1902)• Western Europeans fought the Boer War for South

Africa • Native South Africans had no control over the fate

of their country

Apartheid• Boers establish a system of separate facilities for

whites and blacks in S. Africa• Black South Africans were second class citizens

in their own country until 1991