Motives
Europeans desired these because of the Industrial Revolution.
What is natural resources or raw materials?
The race of Europeans to gain African colonies.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
This rebellion put the British government in charge of India.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
What is the Canton system?
The traditional Japanese warrior that lost power due to Japan modernizing.
Who are the samurai?
This movement had made Western European nations the most advanced economically.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The king of this country made the Congo his personal colony.
The British company that originally colonized India.
What is the British East India Company?
The Empress Dowager Cixi was very resistant to doing this in China.
Reforms/Modernizing
This territory was originally founded as a British Prison Colony.
What is Australia?
Europeans also viewed Africa and Asia as an opportunity to build these to grow their economy.
What are new markets?
What is Ethiopia?
The factories that the British began to build which replaced traditional weavers.
What are textile factories?
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
The movement in Japan which placed the emperor in charge instead of the Shogun.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This ideology functions on the idea that it is the responsibility of the Western world to "civilize" the rest of the world.
What is White Man's Burden?
The creation of this led to a segregated South Africa.
What is apartheid?
What is the Indian National Congress?
This territory was controlled by the British after the Opium War.
What is Hong Kong?
The territory that Japan conquered after they industrialized.
What is Korea?
Applying the scientific principle of Natural Selection to humans.
What is Social Darwinism?
Britain built the Suez Canal after acquiring this country from the Ottoman Empire.
What is Egypt?
Item that the British began to export out of India and into China to solve the trade deficit with China.
What is opium?
China was carved up into these separate territories during the Age of Imperialism.
What are spheres of influence?
The native people of New Zealand.
Who are the Maori?