Economic Systems
This economic system is based on private ownership, competition and profit.
What is capitalism
Which European monarch's ambitions in the Congo helped trigger the Scramble for Africa?
Who was King Leopold II?
Industrial nations sought overseas territories to secure these for their growing factories.
What are raw materials.
This medicine helped Europeans survive malaria and expand into tropical Africa.
What is quinine
This French colonial policy encouraged colonised peoples to adopt French language, culture and institutions.
What is assimilation?
This economic system promotes greater economic equality and shared benefits.
What is socialism.
In what years did the Berlin Conference take place?
1884–1885.
European powers competed to acquire _____________ to expand their empires.
What are colonies?
Under this colonial system, European officials replaced local rulers and governed territories themselves.
What is direct rule?
These religious individuals travelled to colonies to spread Christianity, often establishing churches, schools and hospitals.
Who were missionaries?
Adam Smith supported this approach of limited government interference in markets.
What is laissez-faire economics?
Name three technological advancements that helped Europeans conquer territories and extract raw materials.
Any three:
railways,
modern firearms, (maxim gun)
telegraphs or
steamships.
Ports, canals and railways are examples of this type of development, often built by imperial powers to transport goods, resources and people.
What is infrastructure?
This 1857 uprising against British authority led to the end of East India Company rule.
What was the Sepoy Mutiny (Indian Rebellion)?
By 1914, these two African countries had maintained their formal independence despite European colonial expansion.
What are Liberia and Ethiopia?
Karl Marx used this term for workers who earned wages but did not own factories.
What is the proletariat?
What principle did European powers agree upon at the Berlin Conference to establish a valid territorial claim?
Effective occupation — actual authority with establsihed administration and military.
Darwin used this term to explain how organisms with advantageous traits are more likely to survive and reproduc
What is natural selection.
Opened in 1869, this waterway shortened Britain's sea route to India.
What is the Suez Canal?
Name three negative economic consequences of European imperialism in African colonies. Answer:
Labour exploitation,
Extraction and depletion of natural resources, and
Unfair colonial taxation.
This economic system, advocated collective ownership of the means of production and a classless society.
What is communism.
This privately owned British trading company gradually gained political and economic control over much of India before the British Crown took over in 1858.
hat was the British East India Company?
This phrase portrayed colonial domination as a moral duty rather than a pursuit of wealth and power.
What is White Man's Burden
By 1914, approximately how much of the world's land was controlled by European powers, and how much by the British Empire?
A. 65% by Europe; 18% by Britain
B. 75% by Europe; 30% by Britain
C. 90% by Europe; 40% by Britain
D. 84% by Europe; 24% by Britain
D. 84% by Europe; 24% by Britain
Give one example of a community divided by colonial boundaries and one example of different ethnic groups brought together under the same colonial government.
- Ewe people of Togo and Ghana were separated
- Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo of Nigeria were brought together (this led to a civil war of 1967-70)
-Sudan (North: Arabs, Nuba vs. South: Dinka and Nuer= Civil War and secession= today North & South Sudan)
-Ivory Coast (Regional tribal Conflict = 2 major civil wars)