Rationales for Imperialism
This major change to goods being made by machine resulted in a new wave of Imperialism, due to the need for raw materials and markets for finished products.
What is industrialization (or Industrial Revolution)?
Members of this joint-stock trading company were the first to introduce British influence in India and remained in control until 1857.
What is the British East India Company?
These agreements were signed as a result of China's loss in the Opium Wars and gave up key territory and ports to foreign powers, the first being Great Britian.
What are the unequal treaties?
This medicine was used to treat malaria and led to the Scramble for Africa, because tropical diseases were no longer such a threat to European colonizers.
Quinine
Desire to spread this religion to new territories, led to a push for taking colonies, from leaders like Josiah Strong.
What is Christianity?
After 1857, direct rule of India by the British government began. This was the name for that period of rule, that lasted until 1947.
What is the (British) Raj?
This Chinese uprising lasted for 15 years and was started by a peasant in the south who believed himself to be the younger brother of Jesus.
This invention gave European colonizers a military advantage over African powers, who were still using muskets, traded during the previous era.
What is the Maxim Gun (repeating rife or machine gun also accepted)?
This term is used to describe extreme patriotism and the belief in the superiority of a given country and was used to justify a new wave of imperialism.
What is nationalism?
This extremely addictive product was grown on plantations in India and exported by the British to neighboring China.
What is opium?
This 55 day long uprising took place at the turn of the 20th century and was characterized by attacks on foreigners, and especially Christian missionaries in China's cities.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
Collection quotas for this resource were set in the Belgian Free State during the rule of King Leopold II, with brutal punishments for those that did not meet them.
What is rubber?
The Origin of Species was published in 1859 and introduced ideas such as "survival of the fittest" and "natural selection" to describe the animal world. These ideas were then applied to human beings and used to justify imperialism.
What is Social Darwinism?
This event, which resulted in the end of British East India Control and the start of direct colonial rule, started as a result of rumors that cow and pig fat was being used to grease the muskets of Indian soldiers employed by the British.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny?
Unlike China, Japan underwent a period of modernization and rapid industrialization during this time period, referred to by this name. Rather than being colonized, they became an imperial power in their own right during this time.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This meeting convened in Germany, from 1884-1885 and resulted in European powers carving up Africa amongst themselves, so as to avoid going to war with one another over territory.
What is the Berlin Conference?