Definitions
A country or area under the full or partial control of another country, typically a distant one
What is a colony?
The name of the joint-stock company that maintained power in India
What is the British East India company?
One of the two African nations that were never colonized by Europe.
What is Ethiopia or Liberia?
The name of the conflict between the British and Chinese in which the British were trying to maintain control over the trade of a certain substance.
What are the Opium Wars?
Facts or beliefs mistakenly based on scientific inquiry (the scientific method).
What is Pseudoscience?
The ideology behind colonialism
What is imperialism?
Before getting more directly involved in governing, the British maintain this kind of rule in India
What is indirect rule?
The major natural resource that Belgium wanted to extract from Congo
What is rubber?
The Chinese revolt in which peasants in Northern China rose up against imperialist nations
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
Belief that factual evidence exists to support or justify racism, racial inferiority, or racial superiority
What is Race Science/Scientific Racism?
The acronym for different forms of maintaining power
What is IEMP?
The name of Indian soldiers for the British East India Company
Who are the Sepoys?
The 1884 meeting of European leaders for the purpose of dividing Africa amongst themselves.
What is the Conference of Berlin?
China was not technically a European colony but instead various European countries had these less direct forms of control in China
What are spheres of influences?
The study of the shape of skull
What is Craniometry?
Controlling the way people view themselves and the world around them
What is Ideological Power?
The substance on gun cartridges that angered the Sepoy soldiers in India
What is Beef/Pork fat?
A major reason why Europe couldn’t colonize Africa earlier than it did
What are diseases/lack of medicine?
Commissioner Lin sent a letter to this European leader.
Who is Queen Victoria?
European claim that they were conquering colonies because it was their duty to bring civilization to the uncivilized peoples around the world.
What is the civilizing mission?
When a country is able to govern itself through its own internal government but is still controlled by an outside power.
What is a protectorate?
The name of the period, starting in 1858, during which the queen was directly in charge of India
What is the British Raj?
The European leader that controlled the Congo
Who is King Leopold II?
The name of the treaty that ended the Opium Wars
What is the Treaty of Nanjing?
Poem written in 1899 by British poet Rudyard Kipling that discusses the duty of white men to civilizing their colonies
What is The White Man’s Burden?