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What is nationalism?
A meeting initiated by Otto Von Bismarck in Germany. The objective of the meeting was to peacefully divide up Africa amongst the European nations in attendance.
What is the Berlin Conference?
The invention of this first automatic machine gun in 1884 gave Europeans a huge weapons advantage to be able to conquer new lands.
What is the Maxim Gun?
A country or area under the political control of a more powerful parent country:
What is a colony?
The policy of dominating the political, economic, and/or cultural way of life of another region or country.
What is imperialism?
In regards to the economic motivations for the Age of New Imperialism, colonies provided industrialized nations with these 2 main benefits (Hint...both start with m's)
What are (raw) materials and markets?
This monarch maintained personal control of the Congo Free State from 1885-1908.
Leopold II of Belgium
A fictional character who personifies the nation of Great Britain, similar to Uncle Sam in America.
Who is John Bull?
This pro-imperialist poem from 1899 stated that it was the responsibility of people from western nations to civilize non-western people
What is The White Man's Burden?
This major turning point in world history gave rise to the Age of New Imperialism
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This term justified imperialism and was the misused application of "survival of the fittest" to human societies.
What is Social Darwinism?
The name for Indian soldiers in the British East India Company's army.
What are sepoys?
The term given for the sudden wave of conquests in Africa in the late 1800s, where nearly the entire continent was carved up by European powers.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
Author of the poem, The White Man's Burden.
These two European countries controlled the greatest number of colonies in Africa:
What are Britain and France?
Term which means a held belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
What is ethnocentrism?
The Great Indian Uprising of 1857 (Sepoy Rebellion) was fueled by what rumors?
What is that the cartridges to their rifles were greased in animal fat, a violation of their religious beliefs.
The development of this drug in the 1800s was used to successfully treat malaria, allowing Europeans to colonize tropical regions they had previously been unable to.
What is quinine?
In the political cartoon, The White Man's Burden, this word is shown at the very top of the cartoon, what the colonial subjects are being carried toward.
What is civilization?
As a huge subcontinent full of valuable resources and with a population of over 100 million, this colony was known as Britain's 'Jewel in the Crown."
What is India?
Describing the views many European imperialists held of their colonial subjects, meaning that they treated them like children; making decisions for them but not giving them rights.
What is paternalism?
What are Muslim or Hindu?
These were the only 2 African countries that remained independent and uncolonized during the Age of New Imperialism.
What are Ethiopia and Liberia?
What is the Philippines?