Vocabulary
Give one example of infrastructure that industrialized countries brought to their colonies.
Railroads
Steam ships
Steam trains
Name the non-European country that was industrialized and practiced New Imperialism.
(hint we haven't studied this country yet).
Japan
Who owned the Congo Basin after the Berlin Conference and until 1908?
King Leopold II of Belgium
Suez Canal
Define natural resources
a material or energy source that occurs in nature and is useful to humans
Name two European powers that began seeking trade routes in 1500 ("Old Imperialism").
Great Britain/ England
Spain
France
Portugal
Holland / Netherlands
Why were the Europeans at an advantage when they encountered Africans?
Technology
Especially guns
Name two natural resources that Europeans took out of Africa.
Rubber
Ivory
Cotton
Palm Oil
Cocoa
the people that were inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists.
What was the main feature of Old Imperialism? What was the main feature of New Imperialism?
Old Imperialism - trade routes
New Imperialism - industrialized countries taking natural resources for countries that hadn't industrialized yet
Name the battle that kept Ethiopia independent from 1896 to 1935.
Battle of Adwa
Name two regions of the world that Africa traded with before the Berlin Conference.
Americas
Middle East
Asia
Europe
Define industrialization.
(hint: you have to mention to include what came before)
the process of transforming the economy of a nation or region from a focus on agriculture to a reliance on manufacturing (factories)
Name the company that first started trading the Mughal Empire.
British East India Company
What do we call the last two decades of the 19th century (1880-1900) when Europe laid claim to almost all of Africa?
The Scramble for Africa
Name the two countries that were not colonized in 1914.
Liberia
Ethiopia
the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas
Name the key battle that is often considered to be the starting point of British rule over the subcontinent.
Battle of Plassey
When was the Berlin Conference?
What was the goal of the Conference?
1884-1885
The goal was to divide Africa amongst the industrialized countries that were interested in its natural resources.
Name three countries that controlled territories in Africa by 1914.
Britain Spain
France Portugal
Italy Germany
Belgium