Precapitalist empires
This middle eastern empire flourished from around 900-600 BCE and was known for policies of deliberate cruelty and torture on a mass basis
Who were the Assyrians?
Che Guevara was radicalized when the US helped overthrow this reformist government in this country to protect the interests of companies like United Fruit in 1954.
What is Guatemala?
Inter-imperialist rivalries set off this cataclysmic conflict that set the stage for many of the horrors of the 20th century.
What is World War I?
This Russian revolutionary called imperialism "the highest stage of capitalism."
Who was V. I. Lenin?
This doomed revolt circa 1900 pitted Chinese martial artists against the imperialist powers of the west.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This ancient empire was noted for a surprising degree of tolerance and religious freedom.
What was the Achaemenid or Persian empire?
This island monarchy was overthrown in the late 1800s and was eventually annexed to the US.
What is the Kingdom of Hawai'i?
The US used flimsy pretexts for this "splendid little war" to acquire sovereignty over the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico in the at the turn of the 20th century.
What is the Spanish American War?
Access to natural resources, markets, and labor in less powerful countries to maximize profits.
What are the motivations of capitalist imperialism.
This 1791-1804 revolution was the only successful slave revolt in history.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This pre-Columbian empire's capitol was Tenochtitlan, a marvel of engineering and architecture built on a lake.
Who were the Aztecs?
This democratically-elected Chilean president was overthrown with US support in 1973.
Who was Salvador Allende?
The second longest US war was fought in this nation after it won independence from French imperialism.
What is Vietnam?
This approach to imperialism made it possible for corporations and rich countries to extract profits from less powerful nations without directly administrating or occupying them.
What is neocolonialism?
This leader of a nonviolent national liberation movement inspired leaders of the US Civil Rights Movement.
Who was Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi
This African empire spread over 500,000 square miles in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Who were the Songhai?
The US helped install a military dictatorship in this South American country that lasted for over 20 years.
What is Brazil?
Oil was a factor in wars in two wars in this country?
What is Iraq?
A military strategy aimed at undermining revolutions.
What is counterinsurgency?
This Venezuelan officer led several South American nations to independence from Spain in the early 1800s.
Who was Simon Bolivar?
Founded in 1206, this was the largest contiguous land empire in history. Sometimes they weren't very nice.
What was the Mongol empire?
The US and Great Britain over threw this democratically elected government to protect oil interests in 1953.
What is Iran?
Britain waged war on this African country to put down the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s and 1960s.
What is Kenya?
The strategy of using cultural and non-military means to maintain influence over less powerful countries?
What is "soft power"?
This Mexican revolutionary inspired a modern creative liberation movement composed primarily of rural Indigenous people.
Who was Emilio Zapata?