The Scramble for Africa (Ch 27 S 1)
The meeting in Germany that effectively divided Africa under European control
What is the Berlin Conference
A country or a territory governed internally by a foreign power
What is a colony?
War where Britain and France wanted to prevent the Russians from gaining control of additional Ottoman lands
What is the Crimean War?
Company holding rule over India prior to the Sepoy Mutiny
What is the British East India Company?
British trading base in SE Asia containing deposits of tin and quickly became the world’s leading rubber exporter
What is Malaysia?
Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution and natural selection were applied to human society. Those who were fittest for survival enjoyed wealth and success and were considered superior to others
What is Social Darwinism?
What is indirect control?
An independent Muslim kingdom. Its dry, mountainous terrain and determined people continually frustrated the invading imperial powers
What is Afghanistan?
Term used to describe India as their most valuable colony, even thought India did not produce anything for themselves, all products went towards Great Britain
What is the Jewel in the Crown?
French-controlled nation in SE Asia, containing modern Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia
What is Indochina?
The seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country
What is Imperialism?
Europeans governed people in a parental way by providing for their needs but not giving them rights
What is paternalism?
For much of the 19th century, Great Britain and Russia engaged in yet another geopolitical struggle, this time over Muslim lands in Central Asia
What is the Great Game?
British Lord ruling over the Indian colony
Who is Lord Kitchener?
US-controlled group of islands
What is the Philippines?
The country in Africa colonized by Belgium that sparked further European interest in colonizing Africa
What is the Belgian Congo?
Policy was based on the idea that in time, the local populations would adopt European culture and become like the Europeans
What is assimilation?
Muslim Empire whose government was deteriorating by the time European nations began looking to expand their territories
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Major transportation industry that became the world's third largest network
What is railroads?
Queen of Hawaiian Islands during US intervention
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?
One reason why industrialized European nations sought to begin involving themselves in African nations
What is the demand for raw materials?
An independent but less-developed country controlled by private business interests rather than other governments
What is economic imperialism?
Natural resource found in Persia, Persian government didn't have necessary resources or capital to export, allowed Great Britain first access
What is Persian Oil?
The rebellion by Indian military members against the British East India company to demonstrate anger towards treatment of Indians by British soldiers and imperialism
What is the Sepoy Mutiny?
The adding of the territory to the United States
What is annexation?