Discover what each letter stands for in the acronym "D.I.P.S".
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Imperialist countries that established a home base in a claimed territory used the direct rule method. With direct rule, conquering nations transplanted their language, culture and system of government into a weaker territory. The government overtly attempted to "civilize" the indigenous people by undermining their traditional institutions. Native inhabitants who wished to succeed under direct rule had to adopt the values and lifestyle of the ruling power. They had centralized administrations, usually in urban centers that stressed policies of assimilation. Direct rule also used the strategy of "divide and rule" by implementing policies that intentionally weakened indigenous power networks and institutions. The people in the colonies were under direct rule of the mother country. The natives of the colony were like inhabitants of the mother country. This gave them many more opportunities, but the pressure to be "civilized" ruined the original culture. The French used this model in governing their colony in Senegal.
This system of governance used indigenous rulers, as in Nigeria, within the British colonial administration, although they often maintained an inferior role. By this system, the day-to-day running of government and administration of areas was left in the hands of traditional rulers, who gained prestige and the stability and protection afforded by the British, at the cost of losing control of their external affairs, and often of taxation, communications and other matters, usually with a small number of European "advisors" effectively overseeing the government of large numbers of people spread over extensive areas. As a result, indirect rule increased divisions between ethnic groups and gave powers to certain people who had never had it before in pre-colonial history. The mother country rules the colony from far away, often through a native leader. This might seem like the nicer way, but it created great differences between the races. The white treated the inhabitants of the colonies as tools for their business.
A protectorate is a territory that is dependent on a particular sovereign nation. The "protecting" country usually grants the "protected" territory a local autonomy and some independence to manage some of its issues. Despite the local autonomy and some independence, the protectorate usually gives up control to the sovereign nation. In simple terms, a protectorate is a small country or territory that is protected and controlled by a larger or more powerful country. America's first protectorate was Cuba.
Another form of imperialistic control was the sphere of influence. This is an area in which an outside power claimed exclusive investment or trading privileges. Europeans carved out these spheres to prevent conflicts among themselves. Famous examples of spheres of influence in Asian history include the spheres established by the British and Russians in Persia (Iran) in the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 and the spheres within China that were taken by eight different foreign nations late in the nineteenth century. The eight nations' spheres in China were designated primarily for trade purposes. Great Britain, France, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, Italy, Russia, the United States and Japan each had exclusive special trading rights, including low tariffs and free trade within Chinese territory.