Motivations
What was an economic motivation for imperialism?
To gain new raw materials/resources
To gain to markets/people to sell to
A meeting initiated by Otto Von Bismarck in Germany. The objective of the meeting was to peacefully divide up Africa amongst the European nations in attendance.
What is the Berlin Conference?
A British company that ruled India.
What is the East India Company?
Why did the imperial powers always win conflicts with colonizers?
They were more industrialized and modernized so they had better weapons, technology, and supplies.
This is having a very strong immense sense of pride in your country.
What is nationalism
This canal in Egypt was controlled by the British.
What is the Suez Canal?
The most important British colony, known as "the Crown Jewel" of their empire.
What is India?
Who was the Great Game fighting between?
Russia & Great Britain
These were people who left Europe to try and spread Christianity around the world.
Who are missionaries?
This European monarch controlled the Congo.
Who is King Leopold II of Belgium?
Russia was defeated by this country when it tried to expand and colonize Korea.
Japan
Two countries that fought in the Opium Wars.
China & Great Britain
What was the message Rudyard Kipling sent in his poem "The White Man's Burden" ?
it is the responsibility of white men to go help or civilize others
The two remaining independent African countries, following the "Scramble for Africa".
Liberia and Ethiopia
A rebellion against the East India Company (British rule) in 1857.
What is the Sepoy Mutiny?
(or Indian Rebellion of 1857)
A war that resulted in Japan emerging as a world power.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
Colony - direct control by foreigners
Protectorate - indirect control by foreigners - local leaders hold government positions but do what they are told
Sphere of Influence - economic trade zone controlled by foreign power
Explain two positive effects and two negative effects that imperialism had on Africa.
Answers will vary.
Positives - provided hospitals, schools, economic expansion, better communication/transportation (railroads, telephones)
Negatives - loss of independence, forced assimilation (loss of traditional culture), colonies divided native tribes arbitrarily
This was a rebellion by Chinese nationalists against foreign influence in China.
What was the Boxer Rebellion
Fighting between the British and Dutch (from Holland) colonizers in South Africa.
What are the Boer Wars?
Boers = Dutch farmers in South Africa