Africa
In 1884, no African leaders were present in this meeting.
What is the Berlin Conference?
The natives were very mistreated and abused to harvest a certain type of raw material.
What is Cotton?
Hong Kong was greatly affected by this drug.
What is opium?
The emperor who civilized Japan in under 40 years.
Who is Meiji?
Dutch who settled in South Africa..
Who are Boers?
A certain crop that is strictly produced for profit.
What is cash crop?
A company that did trade for Britain in the West Indies.
What is the East India Company?
Europeans tried giving toys to China so they could open up trade, but China did not need that because China has this important trait.
What is self sufficiency?
China broke their agreement with Japan that was they pledged not to send armies into Korea.
What is the Sino-Japanese war?
Africans, Dutch, and the British all wanted land and resources out of a certain country.
What is South Africa?
A racist idea brought upon by Rudyard Kipling with the idea that the British were superior to all other humans.
What is the white man's burden?
The rumor of the use of lard from cows and pigs in British gun cartridges caused this war.
What is Sepoy Mutiny?
A foreign region in which a nation has control over trade and other economic activities.
What is the sphere of influence?
Two of Japan's ports were opened up to the U.S thanks to this agreement.
What is the treaty of Kanagawa?
It was the “Lifeline of the Empire” that allowed the British a quicker access to its colonies in Asia and Africa.
What is the Suez Canal?
He believed in the racist idea of saying Britains were the finest race in the world.
What is Cecil Rhodes?
This was the British crown on India from 1858 to 1957 that was also known as the “Crown Rule in India”.
What is the Raj?
An exemption of foreign residents.
What is extraterritorial rights?
Japan formally ______ Korea following the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905.
What is annexation?
An empire that controlled most of Southern-Easter Europe.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This was planned to be the largest of its kind. It was supposed to connect Africa from south to North it sadly was never completed.
What is the Cape to Cairo Railway?
Similar to British sovereignty, this system made it very difficult to change where you were located in the social aspect.
What is the caste system?
China's people were manipulated and given the drug of opium following this issue a war emerged and they knew a treaty had to be made.
What is the The Treaty of Nanjing?
The Japanese launched a surprise attack on the Russians to start the Russian Japanese war along the coast of a certain country.
Where is Manchuria?
The Boers tried to keep European powers from gaining political rights so they couldn’t make a fortune off of the diamonds and gold that was just found in Africa, but failed at doing that. So the Boers blamed the British for trying to stop the outsiders from gaining political rights which is what led to a war between the Boers and the British.
What is the Boer War?