Power and Control
Profits and Technology
Ideas and Responses
Imperialism in China
Across the Regions
100

This term describes a powerful country extending its control over other territories or societies.

Imperialism

100

Rubber, cotton, and minerals used to manufacture goods are examples of these.

Raw materials

100

This term describes actions taken to oppose imperial control, including protests and armed struggle.

Resistance

100

Britain sold this addictive drug in China, helping trigger a war over trade and imperial power.

Opium

100

Britain ruled this South Asian country, where cotton production and railways supported imperial trade.

India

200

Local rulers remain in office but carry out policies required by an imperial power. Name this method of rule.

Indirect rule

200

Coffee or sugar grown mainly for sale rather than the grower’s own consumption belongs to this category.

Cash crops

200

This ideology applied “survival of the fittest” to human societies to justify imperial domination.

Social Darwinism

200

This 1842 treaty ended the First Opium War and forced China to surrender Hong Kong to Britain.

Treaty of Nanjing

200

This European power established colonial rule over Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.

France

300

A territory retains a local government but comes under a stronger foreign power’s control. Name this arrangement.

Protectorate

300

This medicine helped Europeans expand into regions where malaria had previously limited their presence.

quinine

300

This policy encouraged or pressured colonized people to adopt the imperial power’s language and culture.

Assimilation

300

These areas gave foreign powers special privileges over trade, railways, and mining within China.

Spheres of influence

300

Beginning in 1910, this conflict challenged Porfirio Díaz’s rule and included demands for land reform led by figures such as Emiliano Zapata.

Mexican Revolution

400

An imperial fleet threatens to bombard a port unless its government grants trading rights.

Gunboat diplomacy

400

A colony supplies cotton to British factories and buys British textiles. For the finished textiles, the colony serves as this.

An export market

400

This ideology could inspire both European demands for overseas empires and colonized peoples’ demands for independence.

Nationalism

400

China traded internationally before and after the Opium War, but foreigners gained greater control over its terms. Identify this as change, continuity, or both.

Both

400

This waterway made Egypt especially important to Britain by shortening the sea route to India.

Suez Canal

500

Foreign residents follow their own country’s laws rather than the laws of the country where they live.

Extraterritoriality

500

Railways linking inland mines to coastal ports primarily supported this process of removing resources for outside benefit.

Economic extraction

500

Imperial rulers used this idea to claim that colonized people needed their guidance, like children needing a parent.

Paternalism

500

Britain bought Chinese tea, silk, and porcelain but struggled to sell enough goods in return. Selling opium helped Britain reverse this trade problem.

A trade deficit

500

In the Congo, growing demand for this raw material connected industrial production overseas to forced labor under Leopold II.

Rubber

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