New Imperialism
Atlantic Revolutions
Europe 1750-1900
Things Fall Apart
Justifications of Imperialism
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A conference of European powers met in Germany in the late 1800's to systematically divide this continent into parts controlled by Europe.

Africa

100

The French Revolution is considered to have officially begun with the takeover by protesters of this building, an armory in Paris.

the Bastille 

100

The fall of Napoleon was a result of a failed attempt to take military control of this country.

Russia
100

The present-day country where the story takes place.

Nigeria

100

This is the racist phrase that is used to explain the "moral" justification, based on racist superiority. The name comes from a Rudyard Kipling poem that exemplified this justification.

"white man's burden"

200

England's main rival in global dominance in this age of new imperialism.

France

200

He was the leader of the Haitian Rebellion.

Francois Toussaint L’Ouverture

200

This movement in Europe emphasized the importance of loyalty to your common culture and heritage, not to any government or king.

Nationalism

200

What does Okonkwo do to the boy from a foreign tribe who lives with him for many years and begins to call him father?

He kills him.

200

This is the justification that focuses on the need for imperial nations to create bases, buffer states, and competitive locations, among other things.

strategy and security

300

This was the name given to Indian natives who were employed by the British East India Company to fight other Indians.

Sepoy

300

The French Revolution was stymied by an inability to get things done by the legislative assembly. Eventually, the state devolved into chaos and the Reign of Terror, presided over by this person, essentially a dictator.

Robespierre
300

Garibaldi teamed up with the king of this country to unify Italy into a single country.

Sardinia

300

What do the white people ask for land from the clan to build inside the villiage?

a church
300

The critique of the economic justification made by capitalist thinkers such as Adam Smith said this.

It only benefits a small, favored group, not the nation as a whole.
400

This present-day country was controlled by the Dutch East India Company, and later by the Dutch government.

Indonesia

400

The Third Estate, which included 97% of France's population, was comprised of these three groups.

the bourgeoisie, the urban poor, and the peasantry

400

This document began, "A spectre is haunting Europe".

The Communist Manifesto
400

The nine tribes belong to this unified clan.

Umuofia

400

Machiavelli and Francis Bacon used this pseudo-scientific justification based on an extension of new theories in biological research being done contemporaneously, and named after that work

Social Darwinism

500

This country's imperial oppression came largely through a series of "unequal treaties."

China

500

The South American liberation was largely led by Simon Bolivar and this man, from current day Argentina.

Jose de San Martin

500

France used this war to fuel French nationalism.

The Crimean War

500

What happens to Okonkwo's oldest biological son?

He joins the white church and is disowned.

500

Vladimir Lenin, among others, criticized the economic justification of imperialism as an inevitable manifestation of late-stage capitalism which leads to this.

Monopoly

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