Imperialism in India
This European power colonized the entirety of India and made it the "crown jewel" of its Empire.
What is Great Britain? (AKA England or the United Kingdom).
True of false: The Qing Dynasty and Chinese people believed the treaties they were forced to sign with the British and other imperial powers were fair and equal.
False! The Chinese literally called them "unequal treaties."
This period got its name because of intense European imperialism and colonialism in Africa in the late 19th century.
What was the Scramble for Africa?
True or false: Napoleon was average height for the time.
True! He was 5'6" or 5'7".
This event gave Europeans the technology and capital necessary to expand empires and dominate native people around the world.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
This Muslim dynasty controlled the majority of India when the British began colonizing India in the mid-1700s. And no, they weren't Mongols.
Who were the Mughals?
This drug was introduced to China by the British and caused two wars.
What is opium?
What is the Suez Canal?
Napoleon created this hugely influential legal system to "rationalize" and modernize French laws, which was good news for French men, less so for French women.
What was the Napoleonic Code?
This ideology asserts that a nation of people should have a state that represents them and that a central government and cultural identity should bind the nation together.
What is nationalism?
True or false: When the British colonized India, India had a small population, struggling economy, and did not trade much internationally.
False! When the British colonized India, it had the world's largest population, the world's richest economy, and was the world's largest exporter of manufactured goods.
This event was a massive Chinese revolt against European imperialism in the late 1800s. The Americans gave this revolt its name because they were unfamiliar with martial arts.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
These three advantages granted by industrialization allowed Europeans to conquer pieces of Africa they had been previously unable to.
What are: industrial weaponry; industrial transportation; superior medicine; new ideologies, such as nationalism, imperialism, and modern racism
This battle saw the final defeat of Napoleon and a major victory for Great Britain, beginning the period known as Pax Britannica.
What was the Battle of Waterloo?
This form of colonialism occurs when a foreign power dominates colonial subjects but does so to extract resources, not permanently move into the territory.
What is non-settler colonialism?
The British government placed this kind of tax on Indian goods to stop British people from buying more Indian goods than British goods.
What is a tariff?
This event saw the Japanese emperor end the Tokugawa Shogunate and begin Japan's rapid industrialization and imperialism.
What was the Meiji Restoration?
A war was fought between the British and these people, those who had previously identified as Dutch. The British won both wars, but this group would come to dominate South Africa until the 1990s.
Who were the Boers?
In an effort to avoid direct military confrontation with Great Britain, Napoleon created an economic blockade across western Europe. Unfortunately for Napoleon, his allies were less enthusiastic about it than he was.
What was the Continental System?
This treaty ended the First Opium War and was one of many so-called unequal treaties between China and imperial powers.
What was the Treaty of Nanjing?
This famous poem written by Rudyard Kipling justified British imperialism in India and elsewhere by asserting that the British brought civilization to their new subjects.
What is "The White Man's Burden"?
This port city was ceded by China to Great Britain, who held onto it until 1997. Now, it's a special state within China.
This region of North Africa was conquered by the French, saw vast levels of settler colonialism, and was hoped by the government to be their version of Britain's India.
What is Algeria?
During this event, Napoleon and his supporters overthrew the Directory, making Napoleon first consul.
This war was fought between China and Japan in the late 1800s. Japan's victory stunned the world due to Japan's rapid industrialization and imperialism.
What was the First Sino-Japanese War?