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Document Questions
1. What do we learn about the country from the document?
2. Is the document more a demonstration of imperialism, nationalism, and/or industrialization?
Justify your response with evidence from the document.
Great Britain
Document 1
Cecil Rhodes was financier, statesman, and empire builder of British South Africa. He was prime
minister of Cape Colony (1890-96) and organizer of the giant diamond-mining company De Beers
Consolidated Mines, Ltd. (1888). His views on nation and duty are expressed below:
"It often strikes a man to enquire what is the chief good in life. To one the thought comes that it
a happy marriage, to another great wealth, to a third travel, and so on; and as each seizes the id
he more or less works for its attainment for the rest of his existence. To myself, thinking over th
same question, the wish came to render myself useful to my country.