{"id":1621,"date":"2016-10-27T02:38:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T02:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme102\/?page_id=1621"},"modified":"2016-10-27T02:38:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T02:38:33","slug":"imperialism-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme102\/learning-pathways\/imperialism-modernization-and-resistance\/imperialism-and-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperialism and technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"reading\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/whme102\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_reading.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Reading<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:302px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:HEIC_Nemesis.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/f\/f5\/HEIC_Nemesis.jpg\/300px-HEIC_Nemesis.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">The <i>Nemesis<\/i>, the first British ocean-going iron warship, used to great effect in the First Opium War.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the below article, from the Saylor Foundation.  As you do so, consider the following questions:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> How did technology facilitate British imperialism in Asia and Africa?\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> How did European technological superiority feed into imperial ideology?\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/wikieducator.org\/images\/5\/52\/Imperialism_and_Technology.pdf\">Saylor Foundation, Facilitating Imperialism through Advanced Technologies, February 2013.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDo you think the &#8216;Scramble for Africa&#8217; could have been successful for colonial powers without their superior technology? 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