Africa
The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. It was used to justify racism and to discourage intervention and reform.
What is social dwarfism?
Rubber, cotton, and tea are examples of something used for its value and not its use.
What is a cash crop?
Britain didn’t want to stop trading this item they found, to balance out trade, so an open clash began with China.
What is Opium?
Japan opened two ports where American ships could take on supplies and Japan allowed the U.S. to set up an embassy in Japan.
What is the treaty of Kanagawa?
It was a strategic location for the British Empire because the waterway cut through the isthmus of Suez and connected the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. Once the British gained control of the canal they used it to access its colonies in Asia and Africa.
What is the Suez Canal?
The input of goods or inventory that a company needs to manufacture its products. Imperialism increased demand for these items like iron, coal, etc...
What are raw materials?
Considered the first outbreak of an independence movement against British rule. A war broke out. The Rifle had to bite off the end of the cartridge. They filled the inside with cow and pork fat so it would go down easier.
What is sepoy mutiny?
Missionaries inspired Hong so he wanted peace in his kingdom so he organized an army to capture Nanjing and take it as their capital.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
A period of time in Japanese history when Tokugawa shogun stepped down and ended military dictatorships. A new government was born and a name that means “enlightened rule” was chosen for Mutsuhito’s reign.
What is the Meiji Era?
This power stretched from Hungary, through Greece, around the Black Sea, through Syria, and across Egypt to end near the borders of Morocco.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The idea of Europeans wanting to spread Christianity to the people of less education and wealth in Africa was one cause for imperialism.
What are Missionaries?
The Hindu system that divides into occupation and social status
What was the caste?
The west and partly Japan began to gain footholds in China.
What are the spheres of influence?
For 35 years the Japanese became wicked rulers towards Korea after taking Korea under their control.
What is annexation?
The study of economics and the foreign policy of a state.
What is Geopolitics?
Also known as the Congo Conference, this regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the new imperialism period.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This is tolerated by British rulers. It is the custom to burn widows. Their (British) custom was to hang the men.
What is Suttee?
China and the U.S. have traded for years, but people in the Americas feared some nations would split China and they would be shut out of trade with the Chinese, so the U.S. stated a proclamation.
What is the open door policy?
In 1904 Japan launched a surprise attack on Russia after the world’s balance of powers changed between nations. Japan’s victory against China began it all.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
A rival empire that fought the Ottomans in the early 19th century.
What is the Persian Empire?
Also known as the Second War of Independence, there was a conflict between the British and the two Boer Republics over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa from 1899 to 1902.
What is the Boer War?
India was under the British government’s control.
What is Raj?
China’s young emperor, Guangxu’s, aunt.
Who is Dowager Empress Cixi?
Peasants and workers didn’t agree with the privileges given to foreigners so the Society of Harmonious Fists was created to show their dissatisfaction. Society did not agree with the Dowager Empress's rule.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
A war that was mainly fought on a peninsula in the Black Sea.
What is the Crimean War?