The Industrial Revolution began in this country due to its strong central bank, supply of coal, and large working class.
What is England.
100
This new form of communication permitted powers to quickly correspond with colonized regions and allies.
What is the telegraph.
100
This concept, based on the ideas of evolution and natural selection applied to humans and civilization, was often used by imperialists to justify colonization.
What is Social Darwinism.
100
This German author and philosopher founded a branch of socialism and wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848.
Who is Karl Marx.
100
The only trade good that the British could sell in China at a profit.
What is Opium.
200
This revolution in Japan overthrew the Tokugawa and put the country on a path of economic reform and industrialization.
What is the Meiji Restoration.
200
This new technique allowed for the mass production of steel.
What is the Bessemer Process.
200
The partition of Africa took place at this 1884 meeting, organized by the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
What is the Berlin Conference.
200
During this phase of the French Revolution, an estimated forty thousand people were killed in the name of protecting France from enemies of the Revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
200
This 1898 uprising in China was triggered by a fiercely anti-Western secret society that unsuccessfully attempted to drive the British out.
What is the Boxer Rebellion.
300
The Second Industrial Revolution that began in the second half of the 19th century was stimulated by new methods of producing this.
What is steel.
300
This breakthrough technology, primarily associated with James Watt, was a critical component in the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam engine.
300
The Treaty of Nanjing concluded this war, which was fought between China and Britain over access to China’s markets.
What is the Opium War.
300
This country was founded after the only successful slave revolt in history.
What is Haiti.
300
These held European citizens exempt from Ottoman laws and taxes.
What are capitulations.
400
a desire for this product in Britain helped to spark industrialization.
What is cotton.
400
This new form of weapon, invented during the 19th century, became an important advantage of imperial European powers in conflicts in colonized regions.
What is the Machine Gun.
400
This event directly led Britain to impose imperial rule in India.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion.
400
Revolutions in Latin America were frequently a power struggle between what two groups.
Who are peninsulares and creoles.
400
District in which a foreign power had exclusive trade, transportation, and mineral rights
What are spheres of influence.
500
19th-century English textile artisans who protested against newly developed labor-replacing machinery from 1811 to 1817.
What is Luddites.
500
This man led independence movements in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia and helped lay the foundations for democratic ideology in much of Latin America.
What is Simon Bolivar.
500
This group contributed to the decline of the Ottoman Empire because they were more interested in palace intrigues than in military training, had outdated equipment and resisted efforts to modernize.