Motives & Methods of Imperialism
This economic policy emphasized exporting raw materials from colonies and importing finished goods from Europe.
What is economic imperialism?
This late-19th-century meeting formalized European rules for dividing Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference (1884–1885)?
This Asian empire avoided full colonization by rapidly industrializing and reforming.
What is Japan?
Indigenous peoples in Australia were displaced by European settlers practicing this.
What is settler colonialism?
Africans, Asians, and Indigenous peoples resisted imperialism through revolts, strikes, and this.
What is armed resistance?
Between 1200 and 1450, this vast overland trade network connected China, the Middle East, and Europe, spreading goods, ideas, and disease.
What is the Silk Roads?
This maritime technology, perfected by Arab and Chinese sailors, allowed ships to tack against the wind and enabled long-distance ocean travel.
What is the lateen sail?
European powers justified empire by claiming a duty to civilize non-Western peoples.
What is the “civilizing mission”?
King Leopold II personally controlled this African territory, exploiting it brutally for rubber.
What is the Congo Free State?
Britain expanded its influence in China through wars fought over this addictive commodity.
What is opium?
European settlers justified land seizure by claiming Australia was unoccupied.
What is terra nullius?
This Indian leader promoted nonviolent resistance against British rule in the early 20th century.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
This empire’s policies of religious tolerance and support for trade helped unify much of Eurasia in the 13th and 14th centuries.
What is the Mongol Empire?
This epidemic, spread along Eurasian trade routes in the 14th century, killed millions and weakened feudal systems in Europe.
What is the Black Death?
This British-controlled company played a key role in the colonization of India.
What is the British East India Company?
Africans were often forced into this system, growing cash crops or working in mines.
What is forced labor?
These agreements forced China to open ports and grant legal privileges to foreigners.
What are unequal treaties?
This Polynesian kingdom was overthrown and later annexed by the United States.
What is Hawaii?
Western-educated elites often led early nationalist movements in colonized regions.
What is nationalism?
From 1450 to 1750, European states expanded global trade through this ocean-based network linking Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
Answer:What is the Atlantic World / Atlantic trading system?
From 1450 to 1750, this economic system encouraged governments to accumulate wealth by regulating trade and limiting imports.
What is mercantilism?
Advances in medicine, weapons, and transportation helped Europeans dominate overseas territories.
What is industrial technology?
This European power used direct rule, attempting to assimilate Africans into French culture.
What is France?
This Indian uprising against British rule occurred in 1857.
What is the Indian Rebellion / Sepoy Mutiny?
Diseases brought by Europeans caused massive population decline among Indigenous peoples.
What is epidemic disease?
Some colonized societies adopted Western education and institutions to challenge imperial power.
Answer: What is selective adaptation?
What is selective adaptation?
Beginning in the late 18th century, this transformation shifted production from hand labor to machines, dramatically reshaping societies and economies.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
In the 16th and 17th centuries, this American silver source fueled global trade, especially with China.
What is Potosí?
This ideology ranked races hierarchically and claimed Europeans were biologically superior.
What is Social Darwinism?
British colonies often relied on local elites to govern, a system known as this.
What is indirect rule?
After 1858, Britain ruled India directly under this system.
What is the British Raj?
Missionaries in Oceania often sought to replace Indigenous belief systems with this.
What is Christianity?
Despite resistance, imperialism deeply reshaped political borders and economies in these regions.
What are Asia, Africa, and Oceania?
During the 19th century, European powers justified overseas expansion using this ideology that claimed racial and cultural superiority.
What is Social Darwinism?
By the 19th century, this political idea inspired peoples under imperial rule to seek self-government and independence.
What is nationalism?