Asia
System through which Europeans traded w/ China prior to Opium War.
Canton System
Using ethnic and religious differences in colonial populations to promote 1 group over another.
Places with consumers to purchase finished products.
Markets
1884-1885 meeting between Western powers to determine how to divide Africa.
Berlin Conference
1842 Treaty signed by China after their defeat in the Opium Wars. Ended Canton System and led to Chinese loss of sovereignty
Treaty of Nanjing
Negotiated seizure of territory through treaties with local leaders.
Diplomacy
Materials like cotton, rubber, cocoa, gold, and silver found in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Raw materials
Cecil Rhodes
250 year period of isolation and stability in Japan from 1603–1867
Tokugawa shogunate
Invented in 1884, automatic machine gun that fires 600 rounds per minute.
Maxim Gun
Using "Survival of the fittest" ideas to suggest Europe's dominance over "unfit"/non-white races.
Social Darwanism
From 1875 to 1900, rapid conquest and colonization of African continent besides Ethiopia.
Scramble for Africa
After US gunboat diplomacy, Japan selectively modernizes its economy and government after 1868.
Meiji Restoration
European population with a need for space and farmland moves to places like French Algeria, British South Africa, Kenya and Australia.
Settler Colonies
19th Century belief that expansion of US throughout American continent was justified, inevitable, and ordained by God
Manifest Destiny
White supremacist leader of the Belgian Congo responsible for human rights crimes in search of wealth from rubber.
In 1857, Indians employed by the British rebelled against British rule due to cultural insensitivity, exploitation, and loss of sovereignty.
Sepoy Rebellion
Joint-stock company used by the British to indirectly control Asian markets.
British East India Company
A white supremacist 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling that illustrated concept of the European civilizing mission.
"White Man's Burden"
Queen Mother of the Ashanti Empire viciously defended her people against the British using guerilla warfare
Yaa Asantewaa War