General
Motivations
Topic: China
Colonies
100

The name of this unit

Imperialism

100

What kind of motivation to colonize does this quote show?

"When the whites came to our country, we had the land and they had the Bible, now we have the Bible and they have the land"

What is religious?

100

Lots of this made it difficult for Chinese people to resist imperialism

Opium imports by the British making many Chinese people addicted

100

this was the nickname for India

What is the "crown jewel" of the British Empire?

200

The practice of extending the power and control over a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions (taking over land)

What is imperialism?

200

Many Europeans wanted to convert natives to this religion

What is Christianity?
200

This act of resistance was a anti-foreign and anti-Christian movement in China between 1899 and 1901, which was eventually suppressed by an international coalition of forces

What is the Boxer Rebellion?

200

The British told Indians they were building this to help the natives, but ended up taxing the natives to pay for it and making profits for themselves

What are railroads?
300

the idea that the nation (any group of people you can group together by a commonality) should control the state (gvt, laws, taxes)

What is nationalism?

300

This economic system requires competition between countries for colonies

What is capitalism?

300

China was a colony of this country.

What is nothing? Trick question - China was not a colony of any country. Many countries had spheres of influence in China, and it was a victim of economic imperialism.

300

1884-1885 conference where European powers gathered to divide and colonize Africa

What is the Berlin Conference?

400

Explain how a "sphere of influence" is different from a colony

What is: A colony is where another country has official control over a place - a sphere of influence means there is no official control, but literally another country still has influence over what happens there

400

List a natural resource that was needed in colonies.

What is: Gold, oil, cotton, diamonds, coffee, iron ore, copper, uranium, natural gas, and more!

400

This treaty ended the Opium Wars and made China a victim of economic imperialism

What is the Treaty of Nanjing?
400

Explain how native people use education as a way to resist?

What is using new knowledge to resist French rule. Many early nationalists (those calling for independence from colonial rule) in Vietnam were French-trained intellectuals.

500

These two things explain why countries that industrialized needed colonies

What are raw materials/natural resources, and markets to sell goods?

500

The idea that it was the duty of white people to "civilize" native peoples, made famous by a poem

What is "the white man's burden"?

500

A long term effect of imperialism in China

What is the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the entire dynastic system in China, which had been around for thousands of years.

500
Japan fought wars with these two countries during its age of imperialism

What are China and Russia?

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