What Euro powers were involved in the "Great Game" on the 19th century?
Great Britain and Russia
100
What African group challenged the power of the Boers and the British in S. Africa?
Zulus
100
Who was the first person to explain the concept of evolution using the theory of natural selection?
Charles Darwin
100
What foreign power dominated Japan?
No one!
100
A clerk who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ led what rebellion?
The Taiping Rebellion
200
What was the 1st Euro country that gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in the early 1800s?
Greece
200
Which institution administered Great Britain's "colony" in India before 1857?
The British East India Company
200
Which Euro power treated their colonies most poorly?
Belgium (Congo is an example)
200
Who opened Japan to US trade in 1853?
Commodore Matthew Perry
200
Why were Westerners upset with Chinese trading relations in the 1800s?
China refused to allow large amounts of foreign goods to be sold there.
300
What did Alexander II accomplish during his reign?
He emancipated Russia's serfs.
300
What discovery changed the political and economic life in South Africa in the late 1800s?
diamonds
300
Who is the leader that transformed the Zulu tribe into an extremely effective miliatary
Shaka (Zulu not Khan)
300
Who did the Emperor Meiji overthrow and what did he accomplish?
He overthrew the Tokugawa Shogunate and began the westernization (modernization) of Japan.
300
After the British won the Opium Trade Wars, China agreed to what 2 terms in the Treaty of Nanjing?
China granted Western nations access to its port cities. China gave Great Britian Hong Kong.
400
What internal factors caused the weakening of the Ottoman Empire beginning as early as the 1600s?
weak rulers and corruption
400
What happened at the 1884 Berlin Conference?
European nations divided Africa without regard to tribal boundaries.
400
What Christian country in Africa was never colonized in the 19th century?
Ethiopia
400
How did the Russo-Japanese war begin and why did they fight?
Began with a Japanese attack on the Russian base of Port Arthur. Both countries had imperial ambitions in Manchuria.
400
What commodity did the Western powers want from China during the 19th c?
tea
500
Which individual designed the "Congress System" that kept the peace in Europe during the 1st half of the 1800s?
Metternich
500
What did the Sepoy Mutiny in India and the Boxer Rebellion in China have in common?
Both sought to remove western influence.
500
Describe the Change over Time in European colonization of Africa in the 1800s.
Until as late as the 1880s, European powers controlled only 10% of the African continent. By the turn of the century, they conquered almost the entire continent.
500
What is the significance of the Russo-Japanese war in 1904-05?
It marked the first time in the modern era that a non-western nation beat a western nation.
500
What treaty is directly related to the 19th century Chinese Commissioner Lin wrote to Queen Victoria?
The Treaty of Nanjing. It was the treaty signed after Britain won the Opium Wars.