What is this quote implying? - "The sun never sets on the British Empire."
Great Britain owned so many colonies around the world that the sun was always shining on British soil.
This country was leading the way for imperialism
Great Britain
The British grew this drug in India
Opium
The British sold this drug to China
What is Opium?
Rush to imperialize Africa for resources- specific phrase
Scramble for Africa
Give one characteristic of indirect control
local government officials were used
limited self-rule
government institutions are based on European styles but may have local rule
This Unit paved the way for Imperialism
Industrial Revolution
Who ruled India for hundreds of years before British Imperialism?
The Mughals
These wars were fought to stop the flow of opium into China
The Opium Wars
This king initiated African Imperialism (Name, European country, and African country) 200 points each.
King Leopold II, Belgium, Congo
Chinese Port City given to Britain
Hong Kong
The concept of the 'White Man's Burden' was based on this man's poem
Kipling
This company was granted a contract by Queen Elizabeth I to conduct business in India
The British East India Company
China was forced to sign an unequal treaty
Treaty of Nanking?
Conference to divide Africa amongst the European powers
Berlin Conference
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
Chinese uprising to drive "the devils" like European missionaries out of China
Three forms of Imperialism from most restrictive to least
Colony, Sphere of Influence, Protectorate
They rose up against the British and rebelled for the alleged use of tallow on bullet cartridges
The Sepoy Rebellion
What was the war over Manchuria called?
Russo-Japanese War
DOUBLE JEOPARDY- Ms. Sypher Style
Mass atrocities and death for rubber
Only two African countries that remained independent and why.
Leopold the second in the Congo
Liberia- USA Ethiopia- Guns
Name: Two different European countries and what African countries they controlled
Two different European countries and what Asian countries they controlled
Answers will differ
Vocab Term: Using resources from a colony to manufacture goods and then selling those goods back to the colony
Mercantilism
Why did the Sepoy Rebellion mark a turning point in Indian history?
Gave the British control of India
Who forced Japan to open trade with the U.S and what was the treaty called
Commodore Matthew Perry Treaty of Kanagawa
War fought by British and Boers (descendants of Dutch farmers in South Africa) over control of South Africa and eventually who won.
The Boer War the British (during the second war)