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Liberating Narratives

Here's another great map showing how frequently colonized peoples challenged European imperialism. We want to use more maps like this one when teaching imperialism. There are definitely other revolts that happened between 1880 and 1920. Please feel to include other visual resources related to those uprisings.

Some of the major anti-imperial uprisings between 1880 and 1920. Source: Empires and Colonies in the Modern World
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Liberating Narratives

Colonized peoples also resisted in more subtle ways. Abdul Hamid Zaki, an Egyptian cartoonist, satirized the British & the French in 1908.

British and French soldiers are toasting champagne glasses while standing on Arab corpses. The top of the cartoon says, “The Modern Civilization of Europe.” Students can analyze what this cartoon suggests about how Arabs viewed European imperialists, who claimed to be on a civilizing mission. Source: https://egyptianstreets.com/2022/06/07/cairo-punch-how-one-egyptian-combated-colonialism-through-satirical-cartoons/
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