Startegy and Economics 1860-1890
The Suez Canal connects which two bodies of water
Mediterranean Sea
Red Sea
This institution centralises the incomes from agrarian and industrial capital towards shareholders.
Banks
What two decades did most of the Scramble for Africa take place?
1890-1910
How was the construction of the Suez canal financed?
Suez Canal Company - French and Anglo-Egyptian investments. Investors owned shares of the canal.
Name two Boers states
1. Orange
2. Transvaal
These two countries participated in a rapid construction of dreadnoughts in the build-up to WW1?
Germany and Britain
How did Britain treat indigenous Nigerians after the scramble.
Exploited their labour - farming tropical wood (rubber) + mining and smelting for tin.
What is chromium?
Metal mined in South Africa. Metal used for hardness and resistance to corrosion. Used on battleships and artillery.
British strategic near India known for its rubber production - known as the "Jewel of the Indina Ocean"
Sri Lanka
What was the Morocco Crisis - and countries were involved in the Morocco Crisis?
France vs Germany - create a Morroccan satellite
(Sec. - Spain and Britain)
Explain the legitimacy of British territorial treaties with indigenous leaders in Subsaharan Africa
Treaties ignored, priority given to monopolies to oversee land exploitation and garrisoning.
British colony that borders the Chinese province of Yunnan and the Indian province of East Bengal. This colony is known for its production of Tungsten.
Currently (2025) in a civil war.
British Burma (Myanmar)
Explain in detail why Britain not keep up with American industrialisation
The United States had more "core" territory, population, and natural resources that would be involved in the industrial process. This became inevatable as waves of migrations increased the assimilated American population to over 75 million by 1900 (vs 40 million British).
Why did Britain not industrialise African colonies in the 1860-1890 period?
Britian was still develloping its own industrial base, and British factory workers were still relatively cheap to pay.
It did not allow nationalism or economic power to grow in Africa
What is the preferential trading system?
British protectionism within the dominions and colonies - protect British trading interests.
Explain the social and economic relationship between the British, Boers, and the Bantu
British alliance with Boers to dominate Bantu
British - Tertiary/Secondary
Boer - Secondary/Tertiary
Bantu - Primary
Why did Britain ally with Russia in 1914 even though Russia threatened British territorial holdings in Central Asia.
Germany was a bigger priority, and Britain wanted a German - Russian war as it would exhaust both powers economic and financial resources.
German Empire
United States of America
Why did Britain give up its imperial rivalry with Britain?
To pursue and alliance against further German terriotrial expansion.
Explain Orientalism in art and politcis and its role in Imperial expansion
Innate cultural superiority
Indigenous cannot rule themselves - therfore this justifies British conquests in Africa.
Africans portrayed "exoticly" and not "normal/civilised"
What year was the Northern Nigerian Protectorate enacted?
1900
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