Imperialism Motivations/Justifications
What is Imperialism
The drug that caused China to go to war with Britain
What is Opium
The revolution in which the Tokugawa Shogunate was successfully dismantled, imperial rule was restored in Japan, and Japan selectively westernized
What is the Meiji Restoration
The term that refers to the period when multiple European nations sought out and colonized territory in Africa after Belgium started the trend.
What is the Scramble for Africa
This agreement was written and enforced after the Chinese lost to Britain in the Opium Wars
What is the Treaty of Nanking
The pursuit of foreign policy/diplomacy through the use of naval force (steam boats and weapons!). One of the main events that led to the Meiji Restoration.
What is Gunboat Diplomacy
The two Rwandan ethnic groups pitted against each other due to the European imperialism method known as "divide and rule"
The idea that your own country is better than another country, a driver of European Imperialism.
What is Nationalism
The movement that occurred because this group of Chinese people were unhappy with European Imperialists in their country and unfair treaties for China
What made Japan a powerful empire in the late 19th/early 20th century?
What is industrialization?
The natural resource found in the Congo that was highly sought after
What are rubber and oil
When a country exerts predominant control & power over another area without formal control
What is Spheres of Influence
This company started imperialist efforts in India
What is the British East India Company?
One reason the Meiji Restoration is considered a revolution
What is the
- overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate
- reforms that industrialized Japan
This East African rebellion started because of the belief brought forward by a prophet that their sacred liquid could resist German bullets
What is the Maji Maji Rebellion
How was Britain so successful with their imperialist efforts? (they were the biggest empire in the history!)
What is first to industrialize?
The Rebellion triggered by gun cartridges greased in cow and pig fat that angered Indian soldiers, that led to the official fall of the Mughal Empire& British crown seizing control of India
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
The war that the Japanese won and showed the world they were a powerful, industrialized empire at the beginning of the 20th century
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
The police force headed by White Belgians made up mostly of Congolese men who watched over forced labor (slaves)
What is the Force Publique