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The reason European nations able to conquer large sections of Africa in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is because they possessed more advanced military technology?
The discovery of diamonds, completion of the Suez Canal, gain of the Gold Coast Colony, control of Angola, and war with Boers all coincides with this time in place.
What is European Imperialism in Africa?
These occurred in both India and China as a DIRECT result of European Imperialism.
What were the Indian Sepoy Mutiny and Chinese Boxer Rebellion? ("Boxers" got their name from martial arts similar to the sport.)
The main way that the African Zulu Nation resistance was the same as the Sepoy Revolt (India) and Boxer Rebellion (China).
What is because all three were caused by native or indigenous people fighting/rising up against the presence of European interference in their region?
The location most affected by the Berlin Conference, because it determined new borders, which caused many tribal wars.
What is the continent of Africa?
Name the Indian men who were hired as soldiers by the British and the country in which they lived.
Who were Sepoys in India?
These were two popular sayings about Britain itself and India during the Age of Imperialism.
What were "The sun never sets on the British Empire" with India being "The brightest jewel in the crown?"
List the effects of the Berlin Conference of 1884.
What are new border lines in nations, tribal rivals and wars, fragmented cultural groups, an economy dependent on cash crops and raw materials. (No more independence and trade within its own borders.)
The fight over land in South Africa was fought by the powerful Zulu people who tried to challenge Europeans with military power and protect it from these people specifically.
Who were the Boers and the British?
This policy is most directly associated with the terms spheres of influence, extraterritoriality, and protectorate.
What is Imperialism?
A main reason that Europeans became involved with Imperialization.
What is to find goods for a marketplace and manufacture those goods?
Things Africa had in the late 1800's which Britain wanted.
What are natural resources such as: gold, salt, ivory, petroleum, diamonds and other precious gems/stones?
The principal reason for the success of European colonialism in Asia in the late 1800s.
What is the ability to dominate their military and commercial (Trade) relations with Asia?
The belief that the strongest will survive, or more powerful nations have the right to dominate over weaker nations.
What is called social Darwinism?
To ensure safe passage on strategic waterways these two places were taken control of by the British in the 19th century.
What are Singapore and the Suez Canal?
This was implied by Rudyard Kipling's book "White Man's Burden" as other nations were viewed being uncivilized.
What is: Europeans feeling that they had a duty to introduce the benefits of their civilization/lifestyle onto non-European peoples?
The topography and climate affected the history of this African region most, keeping it protected longer from Imperialism.
What is Central Africa?
Both the British and French wanted this area of Africa due to its strategic location on the map.
What is Egypt?
African Nationalism was stifled and unable to be developed well due to this.
What were the political boundaries (Divisions) imposed (forcefully created) in Africa by Europeans which did not relate to tribal nations?
“I am offended by the term ‘Dark Continent.’ It implies that only ignorance and barbarism were here before European explorers and settlers invaded the continent, bringing their ‘enlightened’ ways.”
This statement backs an important claim.
Which is that terminology, words and labeling can often lead to misconceptions and stereotyping of other people?
This nation invaded The Congo of central Africa for its natural resources and treated slow workers very cruelly under the reign of King Leopold.
What is Belgium?
This African Nation was able to do something very rare and maintain their freedom by fighting Italian armies brutally.
What is Ethiopia?
When humanitarians, explorers, and missionaries against the Atlantic Slave Trade were allowed to travel to the interior of Africa, this famous saying was born due to finding this missionary who was believed dead.
What is "Dr. Livingstone I presume?" Once he (David Livingstone) was found by American Henry Stanley. This also sparked the interest of King Leopold in the Congo.
This was a main cause for the Imperialism that occurred in Africa.
What is industrialization and the search for goods to sell in the marketplace?
Formed to transport exotic goods from Asia on ships headed to Europe and America from posts set up by Europeans.
What was the British East India Company?