Causes
What were some of the causes for the age of new imperialism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?
Natural resources and the spread of western culture and religion.
Local government officials, government based on local customs, and British India are examples of what type of control?
Indirect control
Under Belgian colonization, what was the punishment for an indigenous person if they did not meet their mandatory quotas for harvesting natural resources?
Death and mutilation
How did Britain control the people of China and exploit their trading posts and economy?
Got them addicted to Opium.
What is the popular name for Indian made movies that feature dancing, singing, and over the top action?
Bollywood
How did industrialized nations view the people they were colonizing?
Barbaric and uncivilized
No self-rule, assimilation, and the Belgian Congo are all examples of what type of control?
Direct control
King Leopold II of Belgium infamously colonized what country in Africa, beginning the Scramble for Africa?
Congo
Who did the East India Company use in their private army, before they revolted in 1857 due to rumors of being tricked into eating animal fat?
Sepoys
What is the term used to describe a minority group losing their own culture and adopting the culture of a majority group?
Assimilation
What was the name of the poem written by Rudyard Kipling that was used by Europeans as a justification for colonizing less developed countries?
The White Man’s Burden
What is the name for crops grown for a profit, rather than to feed people?
Cash crops.
One of the most lasting effects of colonization in Africa was the spread of _________ and the end of __________.
western culture / African traditions
In 1900, Chinese peasants and members of the Yihequan (“Righteous and Harmonious Fists”) tried and failed to expel all foreigners from China in the…
Boxer Rebellion
Where did Pablo Picasso find inspiration for his painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon?
African tribal masks
Social Darwinism applies which of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theories to societies of people?
Natural selection/Survival of the Fittest
What is the term to describe how the United States indirectly controlled Latin American countries through financial investment?
Dollar diplomacy
What natural resources did the Belgians exploit from their colony in Africa?
Rubber and Ivory
What was the name of the event carried out in Iran that deposed the British supported Reza Shah, transforming the country into a fundamental Islamic theocracy?
Iranian Revolution
What art movement is characterized by a rejection of traditional techniques and values, and a focus on new ideas and forms of expression?
Modernism
What was the name of the pseudoscience used by colonizers to justify their brutal treatment of indigenous people and cultures?
Phrenology
In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry used the threat of naval firepower to force Japan to open their borders to foreigners and westernize their government. His strategy is an example of…
Gunboat dipolomacy
What was the name of the conference in 1884 where European leaders met and agreed to divide Africa into colonies with no input from African leaders?
Berlin Conference
What was the name of the joint-stock company that controlled India from 1612 to 1858, before the United Kingdom took direct control of the Indian colony from them?
East India Company
What phrase was used to describe the vast size of the British Empire?
"The sun never sets on the British Empire"