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Imperialism in Asia
Imperialism in Africa
Imperialism in Latin America
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Throwback Thursday
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This conflict originated in China's efforts to enforce laws banning the import of drugs, which were having a terrible effect on Chinese society.
What is the Opium War(s)?
100
This event in 1884-85 arranged how Europeans would divide up Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference?
100
This is the name given to the kind of imperialism when stronger countries make weaker ones economically dependent upon them and thus can easily manipulate them.
What is Free Trade Imperialism?
100
This African state was the only one that successfully defeated colonizing Europeans during the era of colonization.
What is Ethiopia?
100
This is the name of Ms. Justice's intern.
Who is Mr. Betti?
200
In 1839 this person wrote a famous letter to Queen Victoria, asking for her help in combating the Opium trade, and illustrating the cultural distance between the East and the West.
Who is Imperial Commissioner Lin Tse-Hsu?
200
Economic gain, military power, national status and missionary enthusiasm are all examples of what?
What is motivations for imperialism?
200
This 1914 event was made possible by a revolution in Colombia, which the the United States encouraged and supported.
What is the opening of the Panama Canal?
200
The Japanese response to Western demands in the late 19th century was not typical, and let to this great period of reform in Japan.
What is the Meiji Era?
200
These are the ideas that were spread by Napoleon during his conquest of Europe that would be his lasting legacy.
What are the Napoleonic Codes or Enlightenment Ideals?
300
This event of 1869 was a huge milestone in European colonization of the East because it made travel there much much easier.
What is the opening of the Suez Canal?
300
This pseudo-scientific theory, based on new real scientific discoveries of the 19th century, justified imperialism on an explicitly racial basis, and was eventually discredited as unsound.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
In both official and unofficial colonies, most of the profit earned from colonial ventures ended up going where?
What is back to the home country to investors, rather than staying in the local area to help it modernize and improve.
300
This battle of 1889, in which the imperialist casualty rates were much lower (2%) than that of the Africans (98%), dramatically proved the significance of technological advantage in the conquest of colonies.
What is the Battle of Omdurman?
300
This man was the militaristic leader of Prussia during the unification of Germany.
Who is Otto von Bismark?
400
Though it had been closed for centuries, Japan signed the Treaty of Kanagawa in 1854 largely because they knew what?
That they could not defeat the demanding Americans? or They had seen what happened to China in the Opium Wars a decade earlier?
400
This colony, which was the personal property of King Leopold the II, was known for its particular brutality during the Scramble for Africa.
What is the Congo Free State?
400
This US foreign policy statement said that the US should intervene in the affairs in Latin America in cases of "chronic wrongdoing."
What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Dcotrine.
400
Some Africans appreciated the arrival of Europeans because the brought modern tools and ways, and also because they did this.
What is put an end to slavery and other forms of oppression or conflict?
400
This is the nationalist group led by Mazzini during the unification of Italy.
What is "Young Italy"?
500
The Self-Strengthening Movement, the Hundred Days Reform, the Boxer Rebellion, the Taiping Rebellion, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Revolution of 1911 are events that illustrate what?
What is the challenges and instability that China faced after the Opium Wars?
500
When the Europeans divided up Africa, they paid no attention to the tribes and cultures that lived in those areas, which created what ongoing legacy?
What is political divisions that still cause problems today.
500
Europeans and Americans chose NOT to colonize Latin America officially because:
Mostly because they didn't have to. They got what they wanted in other ways.
500
Though some of the colonized rebelled, and some collaborated with the colonizers, many of them simply tried to do this when the Europeans arrived.
What is live lives as they normally did before the Europeans arrived?
500
This era marked increased production of machine-made goods that started in Britain.
What is the Industrial Revolution?