The Industrial Revolution
This concept, based on the ideas of evolution and natural selection applied to humans and civilization, was often used by imperialists to justify colonization.
What is Social Darwinism?
This German author and philosopher founded a branch of socialism and wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848.
Who is Karl Marx?
He is perhaps best known for writing Les Misérables in 1862, although millennials might know him better from Disney's adaptation of his 1831 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
Who is Victor Hugo?
The partition of Africa took place at this 1884 meeting, organized by the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
What is the Berlin Conference?
During this phase of the French Revolution, an estimated forty thousand people were killed in the name of protecting France from enemies of the Revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
She was the author of the 19th century's best selling novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The construction of this passage between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea was one of the primary reasons for imperial interest in Egypt.
What is the Suez Canal?
This 1898 uprising in China was triggered by a fiercely anti-Western secret society that unsuccessfully attempted to drive the British out.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
His final defeat was at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Who is Napoleon?
The modern version of this device was created in 1876 by Nikolaus Otto as a way to greatly increase the energy available to human societies through fossil fuels.
What is the internal combustion engine?
Many Indians, including Mohandas Gandhi, spent time as temporary migrant laborers in this British territorial holding in Africa.
What is South Africa?
The Treaty of Nanjing concluded this war, which was fought between China and Britain over access to China’s markets.
What is the Opium War?
This creole military and political leader known as El Libertador, played a key role in the Latin American Wars of Independence from Spain in the 19th century.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
Got $675,000? Then the Alma-Tadema, a piano made by this company founded by a 19th c. German man, could be yours
What is Steinway?
This restructuring of the Ottoman Empire was designed to make the empire more efficient and introduced a new commercial code modeled on European rather than Islamic principles.
What are the Tanzimat Reforms?
The great European immigration wave to this South American country took place in the late 19th and early 20th century and it consisted mostly of Italian and Spanish immigrants
What is Argentina?
This empire, founded by Shaka through unification of smaller chiefdoms, was one of the most successful new states in Africa in the 19th century.
What is the Zulu Kingdom?
As a revolutionary leader, this "Father of Haiti" displayed great military and political skills which helped transform a fledgling slave rebellion into a successful revolution.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
Working under Stan Lee, this man is credited with creating the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and the Hulk for Marvel
Who is Jack Kirby?