Imperialism in India
A country ruled by a foreign power.
What is a colony?
Movement caused by imperialism often happened for these two reasons.
What are push and pull factors?
Language spread by British imperialism.
What is English?
Modern conflicts in Africa often stem from this imperialist action.
What are superimposed boundaries?
Nationalism in Europe helped cause this system of competition.
What is imperialism?
This company ruled India before Britain took direct control.
What is the British East India Company?
Workers who signed contracts to work overseas.
What is contract labor/indentured labor?
The global spread of ideas and culture is called this.
What is cultural diffusion?
Imperialism contributed to this global war.
What is World War I?
Imperialism was made possible by this earlier revolution.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Explain how imperialism changed India’s economy.
Raw materials exported, industry weakened.
Explain how imperialism increased global migration.
Movement of workers across empire.
Explain how imperialism spread Western culture.
Schools, religion, language, education.
Explain how imperialism increased global tensions.
Competition and rivalry among powers.
Explain how nationalism led to imperialism.
Desire for power and prestige.
Indians were forced to grow this addictive crop for trade with China.
What is opium?
Many migrants were sent to work on plantations producing this product.
What is sugar?
Missionaries mainly spread this religion.
What is Christianity?
Compare positive and negative impacts of imperialism.
Infrastructure vs exploitation/conflict.
The belief in national superiority is called this.
What is ethnocentrism?
Compare effects of imperialism on India and Africa.
Resource extraction, economic control, cultural change.
Compare slavery and indentured labor.
Both exploit labor; indentured had contracts.
Loss of traditional languages and cultures is called this.
What is cultural erosion?
The global system of trade linking the world grew from this era.
What is globalization?
Explain how industrialization, nationalism, and imperialism are connected.
Industry → need resources → nationalism → empire building.