Motivations
The idea of expanding one's territory by taking over another country
What is Imperialism?
Founded the Zulu Empire
Who is Shaka Zulu?
A British Company that ruled India
What is the East India Company?
Japan opened trade with America after a visit from.....
Who is Matthew Perry?
The concept of "survival of the fittest" amongst the world's nations.
What is Social Darwinism?
This is having a very strong immense sense of pride in your country.
What is nationalism
What nation had land that everyone wanted
What is South Africa?
The most important British colony, known as "the Crown Jewel" of their empire.
What is India?
Two countries that fought in the Opium Wars.
China & Great Britain
An area in which one nation had exclusive investment or trading privileges
What is a sphere of influence?
What was an economic motivation for imperialism?
To gain new raw materials/natural resources
To gain to markets/people to sell to
The objective of the meeting was to peacefully divide up Africa amongst the European nations in attendance.
What is the Berlin Conference?
Russia was defeated by this country when it tried to expand and colonize Korea.
Japan
Time period of modernization of Japan into a powerful imperialist and industrial nation
What is the Meiji Restoration?
Direct control by foreigners
What is a colony?
Wrote the poem White Man's Burden
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
Three groups that wanted the land and resources in South Africa
Who are the Dutch, the British and the African tribe the Zulus
A rebellion against the East India Company (British rule) in 1857.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny?
(or Sepoy Rebellion)
The British fought the Dutch for control of south Africa during this war
What is the Boer War?
Occurs 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?
These were people who left Europe to try and spread Christianity around the world.
What are missionaries?
The two remaining independent African countries, following the "Scramble for Africa".
Liberia and Ethiopia
This was a rebellion by Chinese nationalists against foreign influence in China.
What was the Boxer Rebellion
A war that resulted in Japan emerging as a world power.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
Belief that one's own culture is superior to others.
What is ethnocentrism?