Student's Book – Dec 2009 (5.9mb) - The Curriculum Project

exercisecomprehensionA. What kinds of products did the Europeans want from the East in the15 th – 16 th centuries?B. What else did they do in Asia at that time?C. How did the situation change in the 1700s?3.3 CONQUEST AND SETTLEMENTKEY WORDSexpansion (n) – becoming bigger, spreadingraw materials (n) – natural resources, before they are made into somethingslogan (n) – a phrase that is easy to remember, used to attract people’s attentionstage (n) – a step or a part of a processsurrender (v) – give uppreviewdefining,predictingWhat do you think ‘Conquest and Settlement’ means? What might it refer to?ABAfter the first colonies were started, the second stage of European expansion began. Factories inEurope needed more raw materials, such as minerals, palm oil, rubber, and timber. Businesseswanted to sell their manufactured goods, such as engines, clothes, tools, and weapons. Europeantraders went to every continent in search of new sources of raw materials and new markets fortheir goods.The European powers fought with each other over different territories in the Americas, Africaand Asia. By 1900, the western European powers had shared out much of the rest of the worldbetween them. Russia had moved into parts of Central Asia. Early in the 20 th century, Japan tookcolonies in Eastern Asia.exercisecomprehensionextensionapplying andpresentinginformationAnswer the questions in groups:a. What raw materials did the Europeans need?b. Where did they get them?c. What goods did the Europeans produce?d. What did they want to do with these goods?In your group, draw a set of pictures to demonstrate the exchange of goods and rawmaterials between Europe and other countries. Look at the pictures from the previoussection of this chapter to give you some ideas. Explain your pictures to another group.New ImperialismImperialism was about controlling ports and trade routes by sea. Before the IndustrialRevolution, the driving force behind European imperialism was the high demand for goods fromAsia. India was already controlled by Britain, but most European powers only had trading posts.When industrialisation started in Europe, this situation changed. Now what Europe needed wasraw materials from Asia, rather than manufactured goods. European countries competed formarkets in Asia in order to sell their industrial products. This started a new era in global colonialexpansion known as “New Imperialism.” There was a change from trade and indirect rule toformal colonial control of vast overseas territories.42