When a stronger nation dominates the political, economic, and social life of a "weaker" nation.
What is imperialism?
100
the basic materials used for industrial production, such as cotton for the textile industry.
What are raw materials?
100
the world's first automatic machine gun.
What is the Maxim gun?
100
This example of diversity in Africa made it difficult for the many different cultures/societies in Africa to talk to each other and organize resistance to European imperialism.
What is language? (there were hundreds of different African languages)
100
After the British were finally forced to leave and India regained her independence, this transportation network was used by the Indians to develop a modern economy of their own.
What is the railroad system? It was the third largest in the world, behind the U.S. and Europe.
200
The name of the period of Indian history when the British government to direct command of India, under the leadership of British Queen Victoria.
What is Raj India?
200
The belief among European nations that they must be in competition with each other in creating and maintaining the richest, most powerful empires.
What is nationalism?
200
This drug protected Europeans from malaria, which then made it easier for them to conquer Africa.
What is Quinine?
200
African societies fought many wars with each other over __________.
What is land ownership, or water rights, or trade routes? Any one of these answers is acceptable. These wars made it much harder for Africa to unite against European imperialism.
200
One negative impact of imperialism in India was that ___________ power was held almost completely by the British.
What is political/economic power?
300
a land controlled by another nation.
What is a colony?
300
Daily Double!!!
Imperialists dominated "weaker" nations because wanted these in which to sell their industrial products and gain tremendous wealth.
What are new markets?
300
Daily Double!!!
This new power source made travel much faster and easier for European imperialists.
What is the steam engine?
300
He led his nation of Ethiopia in a successful resistance against European imperialism.
Who was Menelik II? Ethiopia was the only African nation to successfully resist European imperialism at this time in history.
300
Traditional African ____________ was destroyed by European imperialism.
What is society/culture?
400
The belief that one race is superior to another.
What is racism?
400
The racist ideology of most Europeans that said non-Europeans were less evolved humans, and therefore it was "natural" for Europeans to dominate them.
What is Social Darwinism?
400
This new technology made communication much faster across long distances for the European imperialists.
What is the telegraph machine?
400
This meeting of 14 European nations set up the rules for the conquest and division of Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
400
Daily Double!!!
As a result of building hospitals and schools in Africa, ______________________ improved.
What is lifespans and literacy.
500
The European policy of governing people of a colony as if they were children, by providing for their needs but not giving them rights or freedoms.
What is paternalism?
500
This raw material that the British made farmers in India grow was a powerful and highly addictive drug that was shipped to China and traded on the black market for tea to sell back home in Britain.
What is opium?
500
This transportation network was set up by the British to help them maximize profits by shipping raw materials and industrial products around the enormous landscape of India.
What is the railroad?
500
In this battle, one of the greatest in African history, the Ethiopian army led by Menelik II, defeated the Europeans and kept their nation independent.
What is the Battle of Adowa (1896)?
500
This type of farming-required by the European imperialists-replaced farming that was designed to grow food for your family and community, which led to food shortages and starvation in Africa and Asia.