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100
Name of the period in Japanese history after Japanese ports were opened to trade by Matthew Perry.
What is the "Meiji Restoration"?
100
Term used to describe Indian soldiers who were employed by the British East India Company.
What are "sepoys"?
100
A war between Britain and China. China attempted to limit British trade and Britain was determined to keep China as a market for their products.
What is the "Opium War"?
100
Term describing the rush for, and conflict over, African resources and markets by Western powers.
What is the "Scramble for Africa"?
100
A major reason that the Industrial Revolution began in England was that England possessed ____________.
What are "coal and iron"?
200
After beginning trade with the Western world, Japan began to ________________ and ___________________.
What is "modernize" and "Westernize"?
200
The Sepoys rebelled against the British after the British asked them to use what in the Opium Wars against China?
What are "rifle cartridges coated with pig and cow fat"?
200
An unequal treaty between Great Britain and China after China's defeat in the Opium War.
What is the "Treaty of Nanjing"?
200
Name of the meeting where European leaders met to discuss peaceful ways to divide and rule over Africa. This meeting was necessary because the imperialistic nations were fighting each other.
What is "The Berlin Conference"?
200
Belief that stronger nations will naturally conquer weaker nations. The wealthy and powerful are more naturally suited to their environment. "Survival of the fittest"
What is "Social Darwinism"?
300
A war between Japan and Russia over territory. Japan won the war and established itself as a powerful industrialized nation. Important because it proved that an Asian nation was more powerful than an European nation.
What is "the Russo-Japanese War"?
300
The two religious groups that rebelled against the British East India Company in India.
What are "Hindus and Muslims"?
300
Term that describes the actions of Western powers carving out areas of exclusive trade privileges in China.
What are "Spheres of Influence"?
300
Name of the Dutch farmers who settled in southern Africa and built Cape Town. They engaged in fights with Africans and eventually lost Cape Town to the British.
Who are "the Boers"?
300
Poem by Rudyard Kipling that described the obligation that civilized European nations had regarding weaker "less" civilized countries.
What is "White Man's Burden"?
400
Matthew Perry ended 200 years of Japanese _____________ when he forced Japan to trade with the West.
What is "Isolation"?
400
Name of the drug being produced in India by the British and later sold in Chinese markets.
What is "opium"?
400
The right of British citizens to live under British laws and be tried in British courts even while in China.
What is "extraterritoriality"?
400
Name of the Belgian prince who began a brutal rubber trade in the African Congo. His greed for rubber (and the profits from the rubber trade) resulted in the capture, abuse, rape, and deaths of many Africans.
Who is "Prince Leopold II of Belgium"?
400
The historical event that separates "Old Imperialism" from "New Imperialism".
What is the "Industrial Revolution"?
500
The name given to families who were given businesses by the Japanese government because the government couldn't afford to run the businesses themselves. These families became powerful in banking and industry.
What are "zaibatsu"?
500
Name of the Sepoy who led the mutiny against the British.
Who is "Mangal Pandey"?
500
Two rebellions in China after the Opium War. One was targeting the corrupt Chinese government, the other rebellion tried to remove foreign influence from China.
What are the "Taiping and Boxer Rebellions"?
500
Name of the south African tribe that fought against the British. They won early battles, but eventually the technology and resources of the British led to their defeat. Shortly after their resistance movement, all of southern Africa would fall under British rule.
Who are the "Zulus"?
500
Term that describes an unequal trade balance between a mother country and its colonies.
What is "mercantilism"?