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Europeans were motivated to secure colonies in Africa for these reasons (Name as many as possible).
What are natural resources, access to markets, profits, labor, power, land, rubber, ivory, diamonds, coffee, etc.
This is the term that describes an Indian soldier hired by the British.
What is a Sepoy?
This is the country that opened China up for trade and colonization.
What is Great Britain?
This was Japan's attitude towards outsiders before the industrialization. They had not interest in interacting with outsiders.
What is isolationism?
This is the definition of Imperialism...
What is a process whereby a country politically and economically takes control over another place for its natural resources, markets, labor, and power.
This event saw Europeans race to secure territories in Africa
What is the Scramble for Africa?
This European company began the colonization efforts in India.
What is the British East India Company?
The British introduced this highly addictive drug to China, prompting Lin Zexu to send a letter to Queen Victoria asking for the trade to end.
What is Opium?
Japan's experience with imperialism was different from India, China, and Africa because...
Japan was successful in adapting to imperialism, used modern technology, and went through the Meiji Restoration
What is Kathmandu?
This European country colonized the Congo under the leadership of King Leopold II
What is Belgium?
These were all causes for the Sepoy Rebellion.
What are religious, economic, political, and military causes?
Lin Zexu led the movement to destroy British Crates of Opium, sparking this war that ended with China's loss and an unequal treaty.
What are the Opium Wars?
This was the country that arrived on Japan's shores demanding trading relations
This is the amount of soccer teams in the Chinese Super League
What is 16?
This meeting hosted by Otto Von Bismarck occurred in response to competition for colonies in Africa. It has affected the political climate of Africa for over a generation.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This event saw the Sepoys (unsuccessfully) attempt to overthrow the British East India Company's control of India.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
This unequal treaty forced China to pay for the war costs, give Hong Kong to Britain, and open more trade ports with favored statuses.
What is the Treaty of Nanking?
This is the period of great change when Japan westernized.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This is the distance (in miles) between Buffalo and New York City.
What is 314 miles?
This poem by Rudyard Kipling demonstrated the imperialist belief that Europeans were racially superior to Africans and therefore needed to 'civilize' them
What is the White Man's Burden?
This was the political result of the Sepoy Rebellion, resulting in a greater hold over India by the British.
What is the shift from the British East India Company to the British Raj under Empress Victoria?
This is the treaty that ended the Opium Wars, allowing China to be cut up into Spheres of Influence, or areas where Europeans had exclusive economic rights.
What is the Treaty on Nanjing?
This is how Japan quickly industrialized, taking the best qualities from each of these countries.
What is learning from European nations?
I'm thinking of a number in my head between 1 and 100. What is it?
86