Imperialism
Primary commodity that the Belgians extracted from the Congo
What is Rubber?
Primary commodity that the Belgians extracted from the Congo
What is Rubber?
This company ran colonial India before the British crown took it over
What is the British East India Company?
After Britain forced imports of a drug on China to get it’s silver back in exchange, this conflict happened between China and Britain
Darwin’s idea of random mutation that leads to a species changing over time
What is Natural Selection?
type of colonialism when the colonial group sets up a full society in their colony
What is Settler colonialism?
At this meeting, European imperial power divided Africa for themselves to avoid having conflict between each other
What is the Berlin Conference?
1857 revolt of Indian soldiers over religious offense, and general frustration about colonialism
What is Sepoy Mutiny?
Massive, failed revolt in China against imperialism and especially against the Qing Dynasty. Millions died.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
This phrase came from Social Darwinists who believed some raced were superior
What is Survival of the fittest?
People who joined imperialists in order to convert colonized people to Christianity
Missionaries
This African territory was where the most violent European imperialism happened on the continent
What is Belgian Congo?
1920 mass shooting by General Dyer, killing Indian civilians who were at a harvest festival and listening to a political speech
What is the Jallianwal Bagh Massacre (Amritsar Massacre)?
Anti-imperial revolt by group who believed they were spiritually protected against British bullets
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
a program to control births in communities they wanted to limit
What is Eugenics?
type of imperialism in which imperialists put one ethnic or other group in power setting up conflict with other ethnic groups
What is Indirect Rule?
The leader of a small European country
Who is King Leopold?
After 1920, this person became the leader of Indian independence movement
Who is Gandhi?
European powers gained economic influence over sections of China, called: _____
Spheres of Influence
wrote the poem a “White Man’s Burder”
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
the primary purpose of imperialism was to extract and sell goods for export. These products are called ____
Commodities
The race for territories among Europeans in the continent to their south is often called the:
The British took commodities from India to produce at home; this led to the process in India of _____
Deindustrialization
In China today, some refer to the imperial 100 year period as the ______
"Century of humiliation"
Kipling’s poem was written to the Americans to think about their new colony in the _____
Philippines