Ways of Imperial Rule
Africa
Notables
Asia
Potpourri
100
A form of imperial rule where the imperial country enforces exclusive investment or trading rights.
What is a sphere of influence?
100
This meeting of the European powers determined how Africa's territory would be divided among them.
What is the Berlin Conference?
100
European leader who made a personal colony out of Africa's congo region.
Who was Leopold II of Belgium?
100
This war between China and Britain resulted in a humiliating defeat for China and severe penalties for losing.
What was the Opium War?
100
This term denotes a country's control of foreign territory in order to exploit its natural resources and establish new markets for export products.
What is imperialism?
200
The imperial country leaves local leader in power and controls the country through them, as Britain practiced.
What is indirect rule?
200
Europeans viewed Africans as inferior due to this influence of this ideology.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
Nationalist leader in China who became the president of the Republic of China.
Who is Sun Yixian?
200
This revolt among Indian soldiers serving in the British army sought to create an independent India.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
200
This technology(ies) gave the European powers a considerable advantage over the colonial peoples.
What is the Maxim gun or stream-powered warships?
300
The British would educate the children of local rulers in order to spread its culture, another example of this form of imperial rule.
What is indirect rule?
300
This war between Britain and Dutch settlers in South Africa occurred due to the discovery of gold on the lands belonging to the settlers.
What was the Boer War?
300
During his brief reign as emperor, he attempted to modernize China under the 100 Days of Reform.
What was Guang Xu?
300
Rebellion that lasted over a decade and resulted int he deaths of 20 million Chinese.
What was the Taiping Rebellion?
300
The Suez Canal was vital to the British and French for this reason.
What is providing a route to their eastern colonies?
400
The imperial country leaves local leader in power and uses a representative to "advise" the colony on matters of trade.
What is protectorate?
400
He was known as a great explorers of interior Africa and was committed to ending the African slave trade.
Who was David Livingston?
400
As empress dowager of China under the Qing, she resisted modernization efforts due to her strict Confucian beliefs.
Who was Ci Xi?
400
This movement to modernize China was supported by China's merchants but not be the government.
What was the self-strengthening movement?
400
This organization united those Indians who were followers of Islam.
What is the Muslim League?
500
Dominating country sends officials to rule the country.
What is direct rule?
500
Identify one of the African kingdoms that went into decline due to or was defeated by the European colonial powers.
What was Asante, Ghana, Ottoman and Zulu.
500
Person that made contact with Japan on behalf of the US government.
Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
500
This Hindu organization advocated the India be granted its independence from Britain.
What was the Indian National Congress?
500
Identify one of the reforms proposed during the Hundren Days of Reform.
What was industrialization, constitutional monarchy, modernized education system?
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