Cultural Disruption
What religion did British missionaries try to spread across India, causing tension with other faiths
What is Christianity
Leader of peaceful protests against British rule in India in the 20th century
Who is Gandhi
The type of control Britain had In India
What is direct rule
What did India serve as under imperial rule
A supplier of raw resources for Britain
How did imperialism shape nationalist movements
created resentment towards foreign control and inspired movements demanding self rule and revival of culture
What city became a symbol of western presence and modernity in China
What is Shanghai
Military grievances and religious insensitivity by the British East India Company led to this breaking out.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion
What was the primary difference between British imperial control in India versus China?
What is direct colonization in India versus economic and political influence through spheres of influence in China?
What 19th century rebellion showed the mass peasant dissatisfaction with the ruling power and foreign involvement in ruining their economy
the Taiping Rebellion
What dynasty declined due to Imperialism in the Empire.
The Qing Dynasty
Formed to call for an opportunity to serve in government and create a western style government
What was the Indian National Congress
The Uprising in China attempting to stop spread of foreign influence.
What is the Boxer Rebellion.
The British policy used to justify the spread of western ideas and customs into its colonies.
What was the Civilizing mission
Why did Britain begin selling Opium to China?
Attempt to fix trade imbalance caused by high British demand for Chinese goods, and low Chinese demands for British goods
What did the independence movements occurring throughout India inspire
what is Decolonization
The outlawed Indian custom, upsetting Hindus
What is Sati
The reform movement to modernize China, while maintaining Confucian values.
What was the self straightening movement
What battle in 1757 marked the start of British influence in India
What was the Battle of Plassey
What economic power did China loose in the treaty of Nanking
The ability set its own tariffs and control its own ports
What lasting cultural impact did imperialism have on Chinese religion and ideologies.
Led to the rejection of traditional Confucianism, in search for western ideologies like marxism
What belief about China being superior to other nations was weakened due to imperial and Western influence?
Their Ethnocentrism, the belief they are the Middle Kingdom
The secret society that led the Boxer Rebellion against Westerners and Christians
Who are the Righteous and Harmonious Fists?
What was the Treaty of Nanking
Why could China not modernize its currency and financial system under imperialist domination?
The lack of a central power in control, and the manipulation Europeans had on Chinese markets
Why did China reject many western style reforms after the fall of the Qing Dynasty?
Many in government associated Western ideas with exploitation, instead turning to communism