Imperialism
This term refers to one state exercising influence over another state, usually for the purpose of extracting resources, accessing markets, enhancing military advantages, or spreading cultural ideas, during the period ca. 1750 to ca. 1900
What is Imperialism?
This diplomatic agreement ended the Maori Wars in New Zealand, between the Maori people and the British government, in the late 19th century.
What is the Treaty of Waitangi?
This term refers to a diplomatic meeting in Europe, in 1884, wherein various European powers divided up the continent of Africa between themselves.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This term names a man-made system of locks and channels, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, the creation of which was a result of US Imperialism in Latin America in the early 20th century.
What is the Panama Canal?
This concept refers to colonial peoples learning the language, religions, patterns of dress or behavior, and other elements of the metropole, usually so that the colonial people can enjoy some advantage or favorable treatment by the imperializing power.
This term was the British name for what is now known as Australia, during the time it was a British colony.
What is New South Wales?
This term was used by white citizens in the United States, during the 19th century, to express their belief that the U.S. had a divinely-ordained mission to spread Christianity and democratic governance from the Atlantic to the Pacific, despite the various indigenous and Mexican populations living west of the Mississippi river.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This term names a man-made system of locks and channels, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, the creation of which was a result of European Imperialism in North Africa in the mid 19th century.
What is the Suez Canal?
This concept refers to the migration of large numbers of people from the metropole to the colony, for the purpose of enhancing the metropole's control over the colony.
What is a settler colony?
This term refers to indigenous people living in Australia before the arrival of the British.
Who are the Aborigines?
These two organizations emerged in South Asia as nationalist responses to British direct rule after the rebellion of 1857.
What are the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League?
This is the name of the Belgian colony in central Africa, which was the site or particularly brutal treatment of indigenous African people by European colonizers, in the late 19th century.
What is the Congo?
This concept uses the biological theory of evolution to imply that certain groups of humans are "more evolved" than others, and therefore have a right to rule over others. This notion was frequently used by imperializing states to justify their imperial projects.
What is social darwinism?
This term refers to the white European-descended (mostly Dutch-descended) settlers already living in South Africa, before the Arrival of the British in the 19th century.
Who are the Afrikaaners or the Boers?
This term names a foreign policy position articulated by the US government in the early 19th century, warning European states not to interfere with the affairs of states in the Americas (i.e. not to engage in Imperialism).
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This is the name of the indigenous people of Southwest Africa who revolted against their German imperial overlords, in the early 20th century, resulting in genocidal tactics used to enforce imperial control by the German Army.
Who are the Herero people?
This refers to a practice whereby the imperializing state recruits local elites from among the indigenous population in the colony, then promises this elite special privileges, rewards, status, or other benefit, in exchange for those elites helping the imperializing state rule over the colony.
What is gentry class creation?
This term refers to a gentry class used by the British to help them rule India, prior to the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857.
Who are the zamindars?
This term names an 1898 conflict between the US and a European state, wherein the US gained control of overseas territories as part of the the peace agreement.
What is the Spanish-American War?