Let's Colonize...Again
"I Bless the Rains Down in Africa"
Indian Tea Time
Chinatown
Bye Bye Bye Samurai
100
What do you call a nation that colonizes other nations?
A Mother Country
100
What is another word for Colonization?
Imperialism
100
What was the name for Indian soldiers who worked for British East India Company?
Sepoys
100
What is the is the main idea of this political cartoon?
China does not have the power to resist being colonized.
100
What do you call the policy when Japan adopted the customs and technologies of Western countries (European and the United States)? Peter the Great did this many years earlier in Russia.
Westernization
200
What do you call a territory taken over by a mother country mainly for access to natural resources?
A Colony
200
Which military technology did the Europeans use to colonize Africa?
The Gatling or the Maxim Gun
200
Why was the colony of India considered Britain's "Jewel in the Crown? **Daily Double** Give 2 reasons
Natural Resources and Large Population
200
What was the conflict in China that tried to remove Western influence from the country?
The Boxer Rebellion
200
Who led a fleet of American warships into Tokyo Bay and demanded the opening of Japanese ports to U.S. trade?
Commodore Matthew Perry
300
What do you call the process of a nation building factories and mass producing goods?
Industrialization
300
What was the name of the Belgian King who colonized the Congo and slaughtered or mutilated the Congolese people?
King Leopold II
300
What was the name of the Rebellion where Indian soldiers tried (but failed) to remove British influence from there country?
The Sepoy Mutiny
300
What do you call the areas of China where trade was controlled by different European nations?
Spheres of Influence
300
What was the period of Japanese history from 1868 to 1912 in which reformers strengthened Japan through the adoption of Western economic practices and military technology?
The Meiji Restoration
400
Name one of the following that is a "New" Imperial Power? **Daily Double** Name all of the "New" Imperial Powers
France, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom (British), U.S.A., & Japan
Germany, Italy, The USA, Japan
400
What was the name of the event where over 90% of Africa was taken over by European countries?
The Scramble for Africa
400
Why did Britain want to control Egypt?
To control The Suez Canal to make trade routes shorter.
400
What was the name of the war where China tried to stop British ships from bringing an addictive drug into the country?
The Opium War
400
What is it called when a country starts to built factories, machines, roads, canals, communications and railroads?
Modernization
500
What is the name of the Rudyard Kipling poem that justified imperialism and claimed that white imperialist had a moral duty to educate/civilize people in their colonies?
"The White Man's Burden"
500
The Victims of Belgium's Colonization of the Congo is an example of which Enduring Issue?
Human Right Violations
500
What does the quote "The sun never sets on the British Empire" actually mean?
The British Empire is so large that it is always day time somewhere in the empire.
500
“Yesterday, your Ambassador petitioned my Ministers regarding your trade with China… Our Celestial Empire possesses all things in great abundance and lacks no product within its own borders. There is, therefore, no need to import any product manufactured outside by barbarians in exchange for our own goods.”
--Emperor Ch’ien Lung of China to King George III of Britain, 1793
What was King George III petitioning China to do?
Trade
500
Why didn't Japan Industrialize at the same time as many countries in Europe
Japan's policy of isolation