What is it now?
Cape Colony
What is South Africa?
To advocate for the interests of one's own country sometimes to the detriment of other nations.
What is Nationalism?
Built in 1869 to reduce distance between Europe and Asia.
What is the Suez Canal?
Famous British Penal Colony.
What is Australia?
Asian country that rapidly industrialized.
What is Japan?
This British Company essentially took physical control over parts of India, encroaching on the Mughal Empire.
What is the East India Company?
Ceylon.
What is Sri Lanka?
To establish overseas empires.
What is Imperialism?
This new medicine reduced the mortality of Europeans living in tropical zones.
What is quinine?
In demand natural resource in Congo Free State.
What are ivory and rubber?
He owned the Congo Free State.
Who was Leopold II of Belgium?
Two wars fought between the British and the Afrikaners. (1880-1, 1899-1901)
What were the Boer Wars?
Formosa
What is Taiwan?
A type of taxation system, used to build the Suez Canal, in which forced work paid taxes.
What is corvee labor?
Meeting in 1884-5 to divide up African amongst European powers.
What is the Berlin Conference?
These people were descendents of the first Dutch settlers of Southern Africa.
Who were the Afrikaners?
Who wrote the White Man's Burden?
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
One Territory gained by the United States in the Spanish-American War.
What are Guam, Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico?
Abyssinia
What is Ethiopia?
The successful spread of European and American Empires as superior societies supported this theory.
What is Social Darwinism?
Places that attracted European Colonists in Africa.
What were settler colonies?
Country established by the United States for freed slaves.
What is Liberia?
Areas in which European Nations had exclusive trading rights in China.
What were spheres of influence?
This event (1756-1763) drove the French out of India.
What is the Seven Years' War.
Siam
What is Thailand?
Psuedoscience of studying skull sizes and shapes to determine intelligence and character.
What is Phrenology?
What was the Congo Free State?
This Scottish Missionary worked in sub-saharan Africa and was an abolitionist.
Who is David Livingstone?
Attack on Chinese Christians and Western Missionaries by groups that detested foreigners.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
This internal conflict weakened the Qing government and made it easier for Europeans to control economic policies in China.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
German Southwest Africa.
What is Namibia?
Who were the sepoys?
This nation was established by the British in West Africa as a homeland for freed slaves.
What is Sierra Leone?
Weapon that was used to subdue the Zulu.
What is the maxim gun?
Empress of China that encouraged the Boxer Rebellion.
Who was Empress Dowager Cixi?
Estimated Number of Deaths in the Belgian Congo under Leopold II.
What is 8 million?