Exploration
This explorer is credited with discovering the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This economic policy emphasizes national wealth as a source of power.
What is mercantalism?
This global conflict from 1756 to 1763 involving major European powers.
What is the Seven Years War?
He was the British author known for writing the poem "The White Man's Burden"
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
This period of rapid industrialization in the late 19th century was marked by technological advancements allowing for greater European dominance.
What was the 2nd Industrial Revolution?
Name the agreement that divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal in 1494.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
These large agricultural estates in the New World, were often worked by enslaved Africans.
What are plantations?
This war was significant because an Asian empire defeated a Western nation for the first time during the Age of Imperialism.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
This king of Belgium exploited the Congo Free State for personal gain.
Who is King Leopold II of Belgium?
This theory applied Charles Darwin's ideas to justify European imperialism.
What is Social Darwinism?
This term describes the Americas as perceived by Europeans after Columbus's discovery.
What is the New World?
This term describes the domination of a country's economy by businesses from another nation.
What is economic imperialism?
This was the conflict between Britain and China over trade imbalances and drug imports.
What is the first Opium War?
He was the German Chancellor who hosted the Berlin Conference.
Who is Otto von Bismark?
This phrase summarized three of the main motivations for European exploration.
What is "Glory, God and Gold" or "Glory, Gold and Gospel"
He was the first European to reach India by sea.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This was the British trading corporation that played a key role in imperialism in India.
What is the British East India Company?
This was the anti-foreign, anti-colonial uprising in China from 1899 to 1901.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This French statesman promoted colonial expansion.
Who is Jules Ferry?
What artistic movements reflected societal changes in the 19th and early 20th centuries?
Realism, Impressionism and Expressionism
This explorer's name was used for the Americas
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This was the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa.
What is the Middle Passage?
This war between British and formerly Dutch settlers in South Africa from 1899 to 1902 ended in British control of South Africa.
What is the Boer War?
This British businessman, politician, and imperialist was a major advocate for expansion in southern Africa and was quoted as saying: “I would annex the planets if I could.”
Who is Cecil Rhodes?
This involved the interchange of goods, ideas, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?