The Berlin Conference
Imperial Powers
Direct and Indirect Rule
Colonization
Catch All
100
What year did the Berlin Act take place?
1884-85
100
What are 3 of the major Imperial Powers to colonize Africa?
Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Belgium
100

How did Britain rule their colony? Through direct or indirect rule?

Indirect

100

Britain colonized this area as a place to restock ships

Cape of Good Hope/South Africa

100

An ideology that white Europeans were biologically and culturally superior to colonized peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas

Racism

200
What was the point of initiating the Berlin Conference? In other words, what did they hope to achieve?
To regulate the European Colonization of Africa, work out trade agreements / establish international guidelines for the acquisition of African territories, etc.
200

Who had the largest piece of Africa?

Britain

200

What does Direct Rule mean?

A highly centralized type of rule, which has the colonizer sending someone from their country to be in charge.

200

Provided Britain with a direct route to its colonies in the Far East

Suez Canal

200

What is Nationalism?

Nationalism involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, and the idea that an ethnic group has the right to statehood.

300
What were the only 2 free states in the entire continent of Africa?
Liberia and Ethiopia.
300

What state did King Leopold II of Belgium control?

The Congo Free State.

300

What is indirect rule?

When a country identifies local power holders and encourages/forces them to rule by the colonizing country's laws.

300

Name two resources found in the Congo

rubber, ivory, and copper

300

This theory, applied to human societies in the 19th century, wrongly suggested that "survival of the fittest" justified the domination of weaker nations by stronger ones

Social Darwinism

400
Besides Britain, France, and Portugal, name 3 of the Imperial powers involved in the "Scramble for Africa".
Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, and various "Independent States"
400

Name two causes of imperialism.

Economic, political and military, humanitarian, and Social Darwinism 

400

 a weak territory protected and partly controlled by stronger ones

Protectorate

400

When the British fought the Dutch colonists in South Africa

Boer Wars

400

By 1902, how much of Africa was under European control?

90%

500
Who convened the assembly?
Otto von Bismarck
500

Name a positive and a negative impact of imperialism

Positive - European economies grew, infrastructure developed in Africa, and healthcare and education. 

Negative - Africa is divided into 50 pieces, African culture is destroyed, Africa is stripped of its natural resources, and Africa's economy is harmed

500

A spatial region or territory over which a dominant nation exerts significant, often exclusive, economic, cultural, or military control without direct formal governance.

Sphere of Influence

500

Where the French and Germans had a couple of crises as the German Chancellor was testing the Anglo-French alliance.

Morocco

500

The belief that Europeans had a duty to "civilize" non-European nations.

White Man's Burden

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