HISTORY 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Telegraphy, Congo River
6 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Goal of exploration - much of the drive for knowledge about the world was meant to be instrumental for reward or strategic advantage. Several technological explorations - navigation and mapping; european navies and the competition the perfect clock for navigation. An ideology of exploration - the great land rush describes a part of the quest for resources and the idea of improvement; taming the wild field accomplishes much of the same but for the russian steppes. Connection - telegraphy 1860"s and 1870"s trans-continental and trans-atlantic. Empires seize or partition among them those regions still free from european direct rule (1830s-1890"s): pacific ocean and africa. Captain james cook (1728-1779) and botany bay (1770) New zealand/aotearoa 1840 treaty of waitangi - declared queen victoria as the sovereign. Tahiti annexed by france in 1842-47 - british saw no advantage in tahiti. Samoa divided by germany and the usa 1899. Berlin conference 1884-5 for partition of africa.
