Who are you?
The royal leader who supported Belgian colonization of the Congo
The name for the conflict between China and Britain that forced China to welcome foreigners into the country.
What is the Opium War?
The four motivating factors for imperialism that we discussed in class.
What is RENT (Racism, Economics, Nationalism, and Territory)?
The Belgians, representing a small but industrialized country, colonized this one African territory
What is the Congo?
This European country gained control over Egypt.
What is Britain?
The commissioner of China who wrote a letter to Queen Victoria in response to British smuggling opium.
Who is Lin Zexu?
The meeting held in Germany that resulted in dividing up African territory.
What was the Berlin Conference?
The term for the pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of naval power
What is gunboat diplomacy?
Following the terms of the treaty that ended the first Opium War, Britain gained control of this territory for 99 years.
What is Hong Kong?
This country focused on acquiring colonial holdings in northern Africa to be close to its capital city.
What is France?
The US naval official who forced the Japan to engage in trade.
Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
Term for the invasion, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers
What is the Scramble for Africa?
The treaty that ended the first Opium War, the first of the unequal treaties between China and foreign imperialist powers.
What is the Treaty of Nanjing?
Before the Opium War, the British were permitted to trade at this one port city.
What is Canton?
This country was only initially interested in establishing trading posts on the African coast, since access to trade in Asia was the priority.
What is Portugal?
The Christian missionary and doctor who traveled throughout Africa and wrote about his experiences.
The response after the US forced Japan to end its isolationism to modernize and industrialize.
What is defensive modernization?
A poem that suggests that the Westerners have the obligation to 'civilize' those from non-Western territories.
"The White Man's Burden".
The Dutch were permitted to trade at this port city.
What is Nagasaki?
This country arrived late to the Scramble for Africa because its leaders prioritized colonies in the Americas.
What is Spain?
Individual who wrote "The White Man's Burden".
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
In Japanese history, the political revolution in 1868 that brought about the final demise of the Tokugawa shogunate (military government)
What is the Meiji Restoration?
the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same laws of natural selection as plants and animals
What is Social Darwinism?
In the Scramble for Africa simulation, European countries could not initially colonize territory in North Africa because this empire held control.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
These countries signed the unequal Treaty of Kanagawa.
Japan and the United States