European Imperialism in Africa
From the 1400s to the 1800s, Europeans were unable to travel beyond Africa's coastline until the invention of this. Name three.
What is the steamboat?
What is the machine gun?
What is quinine?
Starting in 1619, this British company established trading outposts in India which led to British colonization of the Asian subcontinent.
What is the East India Company?
To exploit untapped trade markets in China, the East India Company began selling this on the black market which led to two major wars between China and Great Britain.
What is opium?
The policy of empire building, or extending a nation’s control over other lands for economic , social and political advantages
What is imperialism?
This Japanese government, ruling before the Meiji Restoration, kept Japan isolated from most foreign influence for over 200 years.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
Period of time (1881-1914) when European powers competed over controlling different parts of Africa.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
These raw materials made India valuable to the British during imperialism.
What is cotton, tea, and spices.
In 1842, the Qing emperor was required by the British Royal Navy to sign this which greatly favorited British trade interests in China.
What is the Treaty of Nanking?
This revolution gave European powers the innovations and economic motivations to imperialize.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Japan changed its government, military, and economy to become more like these countries.
What are Western nations (or Western countries)?
In 1884, German Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck hosted an international conference involving leaders of 14 other European nations.
Where is the Berlin Conference?
In 1857, a rebellion against the East India Company that was led by Indian soldiers who felt their religious beliefs were being violated.
Who was the Sepoy Rebellion?
After the Opium Wars, European and American powers had exclusive rights to trade with China in these territories.
What are spheres of influence?
The theory that white Europeans were naturally more fit to survive.
What is social darwinism?
This period marked Japan’s rapid modernization and Western-style reforms.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This Belgian ruler became one of the first European rulers to explore the African heartland, paving the way for the Congo Free State in 1885.
Who is Leopold II?
India was often referred to as the ________ of the crown.
What is the jewel?
This rebellion in China was one of the deadliest conflicts in history and weakened the Qing dynasty
What was the Taiping Rebellion?
This political cause of imperialism involved a strong sense of pride and came from believing that one's nation far surpassed other nations in economic success and political might.
What is nationalism?
This was the main goal of Japan during the Meiji Restoration to avoid being taken over by Western powers.
What is modernization (or industrialization)?
By 1914, only Liberia and this country had managed to resist European imperialism in Africa.
What is Ethiopia?
The Sepoy Rebellion changed the role of the British East India Company by.
What is the British government took over direct control of India?
The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists was a group of peasants that became upset at the level of foreign influence in China. This is another term for their rebellion.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This religion spread rapidly as a result of imperialism.
What is Christianity?
This was one result of Japan’s modernization that later led it to become an imperial power itself.
What is Japan becoming an imperialist nation (or building a strong military/expanding territory)?