Imperialism
This country established one of the largest empires in history.
What is Great Britain?
This invention from the Industrial Revolution made it possible to explore the interior of Africa.
What is steam powered ships?
This country was forced to sign the Treaty of Kanagawa in 1854, opening its ports to American trade and ending its period of isolation under the Tokugawa shogunate.
What is Japan?
This was one of the many natural resources that made India a very important Colony.
Tea, Coal, Diamonds, Rubys, Sapphires, Pepper, Mahogany, Ivory, Cinnamon, Vanilla, Teak, Cotton.
This Chinese nationalist movement is considered one of the deadliest conflicts in human history.
The Taiping Rebellion
A policy of conquering and ruling other lands.
What is imperialism?
This European country established a large presence in North Africa.
What is France?
This dynasty lost much of their power in China as Europe closed in.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
This particular dynasty was in charge of India before British Rule.
What is the Mughal Dynasty?
The Society of the Righteous Harmonious Fist, who attempted to expel all foreigners were referred to by the Westerners as
The Boxers
The belief that Europe and the West had an obligation to "civilize" the people from Africa and Asia
The White Man's Burden
The discoveries of these two goods increased European interest in colonizing Africa.
What are gold and diamonds?
This European nation controlled a vast empire in Southeast Asia, including present-day countries like Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
What is France?
The British government officially took control of India from the British East India Company in 1858, establishing direct rule known as the British Raj. This act was a response to the uprising of 1857, also known by this term.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny?
This African Nationalist leader, was the illegitimate son of the King, he started a large resistance against the British in South Africa.
Shaka Zulu
The Industrial Revolution established these two causes of Imperialism
1- The need for natural resources
2-The desire for different markets
This conference, held in 1884-1885, set the ground rules for European colonization and division of Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This treaty ended the Opium War?
The Treaty of Nanjing
Britain called their Indian colony the...
The Raj
The Sepoys, The Boxers, the Taipings and the Zulus have this main goal in common
To expel all of the Foreigners
The belief that the smarter, more adaptable people deserve to survive while the less advanced people would go extinct.
Social Darwinism
This Belgian King established a colony in central Africa, where he virtually enslaved the people to work on the rubber plantations throughout his colony.
Who is King Leopold the II?
After the Opium War, other European countries and Japan began taking small sections of China, through unequal treaties. These were called...
Spheres of Influence
The Sepoys as well as most Indians practiced these two religions.
1-Hinduism
2- Islam
This Indian nationalist leader advocated for nonviolent resistance and was the key figure in the Indian independence movement, leading campaigns such as the Salt March in 1930.
Who is Mohandas Ghandi?