The Sun Never Sets...
Starting in the early 17th century up until 1857, this trillion dollar business had a great influence over the Indian sub-continent.
What is the British East India Company?
This pivotal moment in modern world history, the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing led to nations seeking new opportunities abroad, in the form of imperialism.
What is the industrial revolution?
This island, 90 miles south of Florida, turned out to be a strategical battleground and fifty years later, thorn in the side of the American Empire.
What is Cuba?
Once the US had control over Hawaii and the Philippines, it became increasingly active in Asia, including engaging with China through helping other European powers put down this anti-Western rebellion in 1899.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This term refers to British rule in India.
What is raj?
While the sun may have set on the British Empire in 2021, there this metric of economic health is quite impressive. Ranked 6th in the world with an adjusted total of close to 3.2 trillion dollars.
What is Gross Domestic Production?
Ethnocentrism is the idea of judging other ethnicities or cultures based upon your own ethnicity or culture. While this comparison doesn’t necessarily need to be negative in nature, ‘ethnocentrism’ is often associated with aspects of racism and prejudice. This biological term was used to justify imperial tendencies of Europeans because they were deemed "fittest".
What is Social Darwinism?
After an American victory in the Spanish-American War, the US took over a few islands in the Pacific and Caribbean, the most notable being Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and this island that would put up a fight for three years, eventually gaining its independence in 1946. July 4th, to be exact.
What is the Philippines?
This nations rise to prominence was nothing short of spectacular. From a nation bullied into trade by the US in 1853, to becoming a global power with victories over China and Russia to close out the 19th century.
What is Japan?
To tell the story of this landmark in artificial waterways, you would must include Napoleon III, Ottoman Empire, Britain, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia as a whole.
What is the Suez Canal?
This treaty, ended the first Opium War, the first of the unequal treaties between China and foreign imperialist powers. China paid the British an indemnity, ceded this territory, and agreed to establish a “fair and reasonable” tariff.
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What is the Treaty of Nanking and Hong Kong?
At the time, Europe had experienced a period of prolonged population growth, and many feared that European populations were reaching unsustainable levels. For example, during the 18th century, the overall population of Europe doubled to nearly 200 million. This caused many Europeans to participate in this form of imperialism.
What is colonization?
Congress passed a joint resolution on April 20, 1898 authorizing war against Spain. Part of the resolution was this document which declared that the US had no intention of taking political control of Cuba and that, once peace was restored to the island, the Cuban people would control their own government.
What is the Teller Amendment?
This was a significant event in the history of the British East India Company and British imperialism in India. This is because, following the events of 1857 and 1858, the British East India Company officially lost its control over the Indian subcontinent.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
The US supported the so-called Open Door policy in China so that countries like the US were free to trade with China without interference from European powers. Each European power would have one of these... A term referring to a country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.
What is a sphere of influence?
This treaty, signed on February 10, 1763, officially brought an end to the French and Indian War. The British were awarded Canada, Louisiana and Florida (the latter from Spain), thereby removing European rivals and opening up North America for Westward expansion.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This poem aimed to encourage the American government to take over the Philippines, one of the territorial prizes of the Spanish-American War, and rule it with the same energy and honor that, he believed, characterized British rule over the nonwhite populations of India and Africa.
What is the White Man's Burden?
A massive explosion of unknown origin sank the battleship USS Maine in this harbor on February 15, 1898, killing 260 of the fewer than 400 American crew members aboard. This event would add fuel to the already burning fire from within the US to get involved in the imperial party of the late 19th century. The harbor was in Cuba's capital city.
What is Havana?
This treaty mediated by Theodore Roosevelt, ultimately gave Japan control of Korea and much of South Manchuria, including Port Arthur and the railway that connected it with the rest of the region. Russian power was curtailed in the region, but it was not required to pay Japan's war costs.
What is the Treaty of Portsmouth?
The name given to the way in which European countries brought nearly all of the African continent under their control as part of their separate empires. By 1914 the only African countries not controlled by a European power were Liberia and Ethiopia.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
"Take this formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage tribesmen and ferocious beasts, in circumstances under which no weakling could survive. Put a fine temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Thus, you have the most formidable antagonist who ever crossed the path of Imperial Britain." (1899)
What is the Boer people?
As the major European powers spread their empires throughout the world, they also spread many of their beliefs, customs and religious practices. These people played a vital role in the spread of Christianity throughout Africa.
What is a missionary?
"The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers."
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
"About the same time America, which is sometimes called the New World, was first discovered and settled by the Europeans. For a long time there were but a few people, and they were poor. They have now become quite numerous; their commerce is very extensive; and they think that if Your Imperial Majesty were so far to change the ancient laws as to allow a free trade between the two countries, it would be extremely beneficial to both. If it does not prove as beneficial as was hoped, the ancient laws can be restored. The United States often limits its treaties with foreign states to a few years, and then renew them or not, as they please."
What is Commodore Matthew Perry?
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1954) stated..."You have the possibility that many human beings pass under a dictatorship that is harmful to the free world… You have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the ‘falling ____ principle. You have a row set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences…"
What is the domino theory?