Types Of Power
What is a disadvantage of using wood power?
Wood was a resource that would easily run out.
What were the benefits of turnpikes?
They helped pay for new roads and improvements to roads.
What year did the Dynastic rule end?
1911
What was the Scramble for Africa?
When European Nations competed for control over Africa.
What was one reason why Europeans wanted to trade with China?
Britain wanted to buy silk, porcelain, and tea from China but they didn’t have anything to trade with China.
What was the disadvantage of using water power?
You were only able to use water power if you were by a body of water.
What were the benefits of canals?
They helped transport people and goods across water.
What was the Tokugawa Shogunate's point of view concerning people outside of Japan?
Based on the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1654, people outside of Japan needed to be supervised and report to Edu (Japan).
Who organized the Berlin Conference?
Otto Von Bismarck
What was another reason why Europeans wanted to trade with China?
By selling opium, the British got a lot of silver that they used to cover the cost for their trades.
What was another source of power besides coal, human, wood, and water?
Animals
What was put into trains and steamboats that helped improve them?
An improved steam engine.
What effect do you think the Tokugawa Shogunate policies had on Japan?
Less trading due to their rule of not allowing boats to sail abroad.
Why was the Berlin Conference organized?
To regulate European colonization and trade in Africa to see which European Nations would be allowed to control which parts of Africa.
What is Opium?
A drug Britain used to trade with.
What's coal and how is it found?
Coal is a black sedimentary rock that is found by mining or digging large pits until the coal is "unearthed."
Who improved the steam engine?
James Watt
What was one of the causes of Industrialization in Japan in the late 19th and 20th centuries?
Western technology was adopted which allowed the Japanese to fully industrialize in less than 50 years.
Who was not invited to the Berlin Conference?
Africans
How did China's government respond to the British opium trade?
China's government called the trade "shameful" and if you were caught with opium, you'd be put to death or striped of all your belongings.
Why was coal a big improvement from using human, animal, wood, and water power?
Coal was convenient, always hot, and it lasted longer.
How did the steam engine improve manufacturing and transportation?
It ran at great speeds for long periods of time.
What were the effects of commodore Matthew Perry's demands?
Some effects were not being able to have a navy for protection, having to agree with the demands of the United States, and they had to sign the Treaty of Kanagawn to be able to trade and open Japanese parts to merchant ships.
What impact did the Berlin Conference have on Africa?
The Berlin Conference let the European countries take control over almost all the parts of Africa.
Who won the Opium Wars and how?
Britain won the Opium Wars because they had more military abilities than China.