E.M.P.I.R.E
This motive is driven by the desire for new markets and raw materials.
What is Economy?
The central African country King Leopold II of Belgium brutally exploited for rubber.
What is the Congo Free State (or Congo)?
This document is the culmination of Japan's Sakoku (closed country) policies under the Tokugawa Shogunate, enforcing extreme isolation.
What is the Seclusion act 1639?
Dynastic Rule lasted for 5,000 years in China, and this was the name of the last dynasty.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
The specific company that controlled India's economic and political life before the British government stepped in.
What is the East India Company?
This motive is the belief that one race or culture is superior to another.
What is Ideological?
This East African nation successfully resisted Italian imperialism and remained independent.
What is Ethiopia?
Using the threat of overwhelming naval force to achieve foreign policy goals, forcing the isolated nation to end over 200 years of seclusion and open to trade.
What is Gunboat Diplomacy?
The members of a secret society fought back against foreign influence, esp. missionaries and Chinese converts to Christianity. Their goal was to expel all foreigners.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
The two specific religions whose members were offended by the new rifle cartridges used by the British in India.
What are Hinduism and Islam?
This motive is associated with a country's desire to spread its power, influence, and claim new territory to compete with rivals.
What is Political Power?
This major canal, controlled by Britain, was vital for trade with India and Asia.
What is the Suez Canal?
This war made Japan a world power and allowed Korea to be annexed.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
This treaty ended the First Opium War, forcing China to cede Hong Kong to Britain, pay a large indemnity, and open five ports to foreign trade.
What is the Treaty of Nanjing (1842)>
The event where Indian soldiers rose up against the British East India Company in 1857.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion (or Mutiny)?
David Livingstone's missionary work in the interior of Africa is an example of this motive.
What is Religion?
A powerful new weapon that gave Europeans a huge military advantage.
What is the Maxim Gun (or machine gun)?
These were the large Japanese industrial and financial conglomerates.
What is the Zaibatsu?
A rebellion against the Qing dynasty, led by a charismatic leader who blended the ideas of Christianity with his own visions and promoted a message of fairness, justice, and reform.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
The term for the British government taking direct control of India after the Sepoy uprising.
What is the Raj (or Direct Rule)?
An extreme form of patriotism characterized by aggressive foreign policy and a belief in national superiority that often leads to advocating for war and military intervention
What is Jingoism?
Name one of the acts resulting from the Berlin Conference?
It recognized the territory King Leopold claimed as his private property.
It recognized some existing territorial claims in different parts of Africa.
Most importantly, it set up a way for Europeans to claim and annex territory in Africa
The specific form of control Japan's actions in China resulted in for various foreign powers.
What is a Sphere of Influence?
China's desperate, short-lived attempt to modernize the Qing Dynasty by adopting Western ideas in government, education, and military to counter growing European imperialism
What is the Hundred Days' Reforms?
The Indian National Congress was divided into two sides regarding how they wished to deal with British Rule in India
What is self-rule vs. independence?