1450-1700
The large-scale exchange of plants, animals, and disease pathogens between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This group pressed hardest for meaningful change during the background to and the early stages of the French Revolution.
This book is considered one of the most enduring literary treatments of the era's new imperialism?
What is Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad?
In total, this empire had eleven official languages, even though German and Hungarian remained the most important.
What was Austro-Hungarian Empire?
This kingdom was located on the edge of the Dutch and British possessions in South Africa.
What is the Zulu kingdom?
This crop from the Americas proved a very effective way to increase caloric yield per acre in Afro-Eurasia.
What is corn?
This political faction controlled France's government during the Reign of Terror.
Who are the Jacobins?
The two countries who controlled the world's largest overseas empires during the late 1800s.
Who are Britain and France?
His emancipation of the serfs in 1861 helped to modernize Russia.
Who was Alexander II?
Country which remained Coptic Christian in predominantly Muslim East Africa.
What is Ethiopia?
The transfer of Sugar from Afro-Eurasia and the Americas was most directly related to its expansion.
What is the Atlantic slave trade?
He led the Haitian Revolution.
Who was Francois Toussaint L'Ouverture?
This diplomatic gathering redrew the world map and restored political order to Europe after Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
Almost loosing his throne as a result of the Russo-Japanese War, Nicholas II had to share his power with a new and popularly elected legislature.
What is the Duma?
Islamic North Africa was technically ruled by the Ottomans but remained mostly autonomous.
Barbary States (present-day morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya)
The arrival of this animal most significantly affected the lifestyle of indigenous Americans.
He ousted the Spanish king in favor of his brother. This led to a weakened colonial government which impacted Latin American wars of independence.
This country won a high degree of autonomy and modernized its cotton industry during the 1800s under Muhammad Ali.
What is Egypt?
This profoundly affected politics in Italy, Germany, and Austria during the 1800s.
What is nationalism?
This country and ruler brutally forced the Congolese laborers to harvest this product.
What are the Belgian Congo, Leopold II, and rubber?
This became the most common method of growing cash crops such as sugar, tobacco, and coffee.
His liberation efforts in South America by including enslaved people, mestizos, and natives proved most crucial.
Who was Simon Bolivar?
Three factors enabled and motivated new imperialism.
What are the countries' need for raw materials, population growth, and a sense of racial superiority?
From 1839-1876 in the Middle East, a series of changes or reforms the government promoted religious tolerance and equality before the law for non-Muslims, introduced Western science and technology into the educational system, boosted industry and built railroads and telegraphs.
What were Tanzimat reforms?
"Indian in blood and color, but English in taste, in opinion, in morals, and in intellect," shows why the English and other imperialistic nations used them to serve as officials and bureaucrats.
Who are the native elites?