Imperialism Motivations/Justifications
What is Imperialism
The drug that caused China to go to war with Britain
What is Opium
The political revolution in which the Tokugawa Shogunate was successfully dismantled and practical imperial rule was restored in Japan
What is the Meiji Restoration
This company started imperialist efforts in India
What is the British East India Company
The term that refers to the period when multiple European nations sought out and colonized territory in Africa after Belgium started the trend.
What is the Scramble for Africa
The movement that occurred because this group of Chinese people were unhappy with European Imperialists in their country! Hated Christians and Outside People!
What is the Boxer Rebellion
Who did the Japanese beat? Winning helped them to become a powerful empire at the end of the twentieth century.
What is China and Russia
The Rebellion triggered by gun cartridges greased in cow and pig fat that angered Indian soldiers, that led to the official fall of the Mughal Empire.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion
The two natural resources found in Congo that were highly sought after
Pride in your country! The idea that your own country is better than another country, a driver of European Imperialism.
What is Nationalism
One reason why Britain started trading Opium with China
There existed an unbalanced trade cycle between China and Britain.
What is the destruction of the Japanese feudal system (Tokugawa Shogunate)
Who colonized India?
What is the British.
Who initiated the Scramble for Africa by establishing the Congo Free State as his personal possession.
King Leopold II of Belgium
A method of Imperialism in which a country exerts power over another country through treaties/diplomacy.
What is Spheres of Influence
The reason the growth of Opium in India was important to the study of Imperialism
The leadership that was restored/given power back after the Meiji Restoration
What is the emperor/imperial rule.
What does Sepoy mean?
What is an Indian Soldier under British Rule.
This established the legal basis for European occupation of the continent.
What is the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885