Africa
The United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain all rushed into Africa, hoping to seize the most African territory.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
A feeling that the nation and its people are one and that the interests of a nation are more important than those of individuals or groups.
What is Nationalism
A person who travels to other places to spread their religion to the native people.
What is a Missionary?
This company set up trading posts in India.
What is the British East India Company?
European explorer who traveled to China in the 1200's.
Who was Marco Polo?
A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
What is a colony?
A country that controls areas of the world outside that country's borders.
What is Imperialism?
This is a very hands-on way of ruling a colony. The colonizing country would send troops and its own people to live in the colony. This would spread that countries culture around the world to all its different colonies.
What is Direct Rule?
Indian soldiers under the British command.
Who are the Sepoys?
A product from India that the British imported to China.
What is opium?
Gold, diamonds, platinum, exotic woods, rubber, palm oil, coffee, cocoa, and elephant tusks.
What are Natural Resources?
A political opinion that believes governments should focus on individuals and do what is right for its citizens.
What is Liberalism?
This is a very hands-off way of ruling a colony. The ruling country would make the laws, but it would let the people in the colony enforce them and govern day-to-day activities.
What is Indirect Rule?
Religious conflict between the Muslim Sepoys and the Hindu Sepoys because of pigs and cows.
What was the Sepoy Mutiny/Rebellion?
The war between China and Britain was to stop the opium trade.
What were the Opium Wars?
The empire included parts of Europe, North Africa, Arabia, Russia, and Southwest Asia. The empire would last in some form until the end of World War I. One of the largest Empires in history.
What was the Ottoman Empire?
A political opinion that the government should not be involved in people’s daily lives but take more of a hands-off approach and focus on big-picture ideas.
What is Conservatism?
Territories were still ruled by local leaders, but only with the support of a foreign state that maintained considerable control over that territory.
What are Protectorates?
1947
What was the year India gained independence from Britain?
Britain guaranteed to control trading privileges with other nations.
What were Spheres of Influence?
The physical systems of society include roads, train tracks, canals, airports, and more.
What is Infrastructure?
The idea is that because your country is more powerful, it is better. Because your country is better, it is your responsibility to take over other countries to improve them.
What is Social Darwinism?
An assembly of European powers in 1814–1815 that met to reorganize Europe.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
The leader of the Indian National Congress.
Who was Mohandas Gandhi?
An uprising in 1900, led by Chinese peasants to push all foreigners out of China.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?