African Imperialism
Conference where the European powers divided the African continent amongst themselves. No Africans present.
What was the Berlin Conference?
Indian soldiers hired by the British East India Company's military.
What are Sepoys?
Rapid movement of people from rural areas to the city.
What is urbanization?
Before industrialization, when goods are made in the home on a small scale
What is the cottage industry?
Highly addictive resource that Britain forced into Chinese trading markets for profit
What is opium?
African river basin area with a great abundance of rubber vine trees
What is the Congo River?
British Queen named Empress of India
Who was Queen Victoria?
Social class that rose and grew during the Industrial Revolution
What is the middle class?
Henry Ford’s major contribution to the Industrial Revolution, decreases specialization of labor and streamlines manufacturing
What is the assembly line?
Treaty that started China's "Century of Humiliation"
What is the Treaty of Nanjing?
Two African countries that remained independent (hint: only two majority Christian nations in Africa)
What are Ethiopia and Liberia?
A colonial governor sent by Britain to live in India.
What is a viceroy?
Survival of the fittest applied to societies, societal ideas, and even people.
What is social darwinism?
Revolutionary technology invented by James Watt that improved machinery and transportation, later put into locomotives and boats/ships
What is the steam engine?
Japan's attempt to modernize, industrialize, and westernize the country to compete with the world under the emperor after the fall of the shogunate.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
Cecil Rhodes's plan for British expansionism with a trans-continental railroad to connect African colonies
What is the Cape to Cairo Empire?
Small governing group of highly educated Indians who had some say in local affairs and limited ruling authority
What is the Indian National Congress?
The working class that Marx believes should revolt against the rich and take back countries
What is the proletariat?
The four factors that made Britain a prime place for industrialization
What are exploration/colonization, geography, political stability, and growth of private investment?
Treaty that ends the Russo-Japanese War
What is the Treaty of Portsmouth?
British company who still has the monopoly over diamonds today, major player in "blood diamonds" for a century
What is De Beers?
The British referred to India by this nickname due to the great wealth the colony brought the British
What is "jewel in the crown"?
Adam Smith's economic theory where the government should have their "hands off" of businesses
What is laissez-faire?
Economic theory that arises because of the deplorable conditions of the working class
What is socialism?
City given to Great Britain that was used exclusively for trade, not given back to China in 1990, leading to cultural differences
What is Hong Kong?