Nick said...2/8

Monday in class we went over imperialism and colonizaton in new lands. specificaly africa. First off we discused motives for imperializing: 1) need for recources 2) need for new consumer markets 3) because of the balance of power, european nations needed a way to establish dominance over each other, by creating imperial empires outside of europe 4) establish naval bases 5) social darwinism 6)white mans burden, a racist concept of "civilizing" anyone different 7) spread christianity. How do you like that run on sentance. By the late 19th century, people where starting to figure out that central africa was in fact inhabitable. European powers started to claim land, without any standard identification for the land. This led to general whosawokamadingooo-ness and confusion. in 1884, Bismarck called a meeting beetween 14 european nations and the us. NO africans where presant. The purpose was to discuss the rules for the colonizing/imperializing of Africa, especialy concerning land claiming. Rules called effective occupation where established. if you claim land, you must leave behind settlers, plant a flag, and draw boundries. this led to the scramble for Africa, and most of the continent was divied up.
Please remember that the European nations did not ask the Africans for input on the division of their countries. This is going to cause many problems for the Africans.

Mrs. separ, make shue mike shovels thuroghly, nobody eat the yellow snow, elener, due to the unavoidable inclamite weather, our hang glide adventure is unfortunatly postsponed. the next bloger will be sam, because her boyfreind is so devilishly attractive. (i heart Kevin Paith)

Readings on technology are due tomorrow. Essay is on FRIDAY NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE WEATHER