India
The British forced Indians to give up subsistence farming and instead grow these.
Cash Crops
The British started importing opium after the importation of this good from China gave them a massive trade imbalance. It's estimated that 5% of the average London worker's income went to this.
Tea
Commodore Matthew C. Perry was sent by this country to travel to Edo Bay with black warships and use gunboat diplomacy to open up Japan to trade.
United States
Quinine alleviated the severity of this disease and made it possible to explore the interior of Africa.
Malaria
The decline of this major Muslim Empire motivated European countries to strengthen their control over the Middle East.
Ottoman Empire
The Monroe Doctrine established the United States's involvment in this region of the world.
South America/Latin America
Australia was used as this kind of colony for Great Britain.
Penal
Alfred T. Mahan argued that this branch of the military was the most important in the late 19th century: emphasizing strategic importance, economic prosperity, colonial expansion, and national defense.
Navy
The Industrial Revolution
Name one cultural tradition or norm in India that was criticized as barbaric by the British.
Sati
Child Marriage
The Caste System
Polygamy
Hinduism (Idol Worship and Animal Sacrifices)
Lack of Women's Rights and Education
The Treaty of Nanjing gave Great Britain control of what major island up until 1997.
Hong Kong
Meiji Restoration
This meeting among European rulers carved out the African continent to establish the colonial boundaries for each colony.
The Berlin Conference
This provided a direct maritime link between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea
Suez Canal
This descendant of King Kamehameha attempted to reinstate her power as monarch and the voting rights of Hawaiian natives, only to be overthrown by US marines protecting American interests.
Queen Lilioukalani (Lily)
This term refers to the indigenous people of the Australian mainland.
Aboriginal
The tendency to judge other cultures, practices, or beliefs based on the standards and values of one's own culture, often considering them inferior or less valid.
Ethnocentricity
European imperial powers used this rationale to justify their conquests, claiming that they were bringing progress, civilization, and superior culture to less developed societies; arguing it was only natural for stronger nations to dominate weaker nations.
Social Darwinism
This event led to the British government taking control of India from the British East India Company.
The Great Indian Rebellion (The Sepoy Mutiny)
This rebellion in 1900 was largely due to Chinese nationalists who grew angry over the rising influence of the west in their country.
Boxer Rebellion
Japan's surprising victory against this country showed the world that they were a global power.
Russia
Menelik II invested in weaponry to fight off Italy's attempt to colonize this African country.
Ethiopia
World War I
Businesses like Chiquita dominated the economies and politics of Central American countries, creating this nickname for countries who became dependent on a single crop and foreign financial capital.
Banana Republic
This indigenous group in New Zealand signed the Treaty of Waitangi and waged several conflicts with European settlers known as the New Zealand Land Wars.
Maori
This strategy was used to create disrust and resentment among native communities by showing favoritism for one group or stirring up issues between them to foster a lack of unity.
Divide and Rule
Immigration
This innovation made it possible for the British to communicate across the subcontinent, allowing them to share information, report on emergencies, and coordinate with the military within minutes.
Telegraph
Japan gained control of Taiwan and would annex Korea after their victory over this country in 1894.
China
Japan's imperial expansion would eventually end after their defeat in this major conflict.
World War II
Muhammad Ali was a ruler who sought to modernize and industrialize the cotton industry in this country.
Egypt
The millet system in the Ottoman Empire was greatly eroded by the rise of this -- the prideful identification with one's country and support for its own interest at the detriment of other countries.
Nationalism
The United States helped this country rebel against Colombia and gain its indepenence for the purpose of building a transoceanic canal.
Panama
In 1901, this policy in Australia restricted immigration to their country primarily to just people of European descent; ending in 1973.
White Australia Policy
One method of imperialist policy was the implementation of these, which protected domestic businesses from foreign competition.
Tariffs
Many have criticized these institutions as prolonging the legacy of imperialism because they house historical artifacts that were taken without permission and without regard to its cultural significance to its place of origin.
Museums
Industrial farming in India created the conditions for these, which killed over 15 million Indians in the latter half of the 19th century.
Famine
This was a set of diplomatic initiaitives and propopals aimed at ensuring equal economic opportunity and access to China for all foreign powers; and that no market was closed for any single nation.
Open Door Policy
Shogun
During the Boer Wars in South Africa, the Boers used this tactic to disrupt British operations; an irregular fighting style that used coordinated suprise attacks rather than large battles.
Guerilla Warfare
Similar to the Radcliffe Line in India, and the Berlin Conference, the Sykes-Picot Treaty upset Arabs because it created these artifically, without any regard to nationalism, ethnicity, language, or history.
(Political) Borders
This United States President, known for using what was called "Big Stick Diplomacy", won a Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Treaty of Portsmouth that ended the Russo-Japanese War.
Theodore Roosevelt
In 1901, six self-governing colonies (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia) united to create the Federation of Australia. Fiji and this country were originally supposed to join, but they decided not to.
New Zealand
In this system, colonial powers collaborated with local authorities and maintained preexisting institutions to govern and use the structures already in place for imperial purposes.
Indirect Rule
This strategy was used to suppress indigenous languages, cultures, and traditions, and to promote European languages, religions, and customs.
Assimilation
The "Blowing From a Gun" execution method greatly upset Hindus and Muslims becasue it didn't provide proper burial rites after Indians were killed using this weapon.
Canon
Believing that adopting Western ideas voluntarily will allow them to gain independence and self-determination; Sun Yat Sen led China to became this type of country/government in 1911.
Republic
Siam was the only country in Asia to remain independent from European imperialism. Today, that country is called this.
Thailand
Concentration Camps
This war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire (allied with France and England) for control over the region was the first modern war; using telegraphs, naval shells, railroads, and the professionalisation of field medicine, as demonstrated by Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.
The Crimean War
Known as Seward's Folly, the United States bought this seemingly worthless territory from Russia in 1867; unknown to them at the time that the area was rich with oil.
Alaska
New Zealand was the first country in the world that instituted what major democratic step in world history.
Gave Women the Right to Vote
During imperialism, the actions of Europen countries were this, where native population's autonomy was limited for the idea of promoting good. The word characterizes that those limiting actions are acting as parents to those who are being limited, which are treated like children.
Paternalism
In the world-systems theory, these nations have and continue to be subjected to exploitation and political subjugation by core nations.
Periphery