24 Flashcards
Neo Europe’s
settler colonies with established populations of Europeans, such as North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America, where Europe found outlets for population growth and its most profitable investment opportunities in the 19th century
Opium wars
to mid 19th century conflicts between China and Great Britain over the British trade and opium which was designed to open China to European free trade and defeat trying to give European traders in missionaries increased protection and concessions
Gunboat diplomacy
They use sore threat of military force to coerce a government into economic or political agreements
Global mass migration
The mass movement of people from Europe in the 19th century and one reason that the West’s impact on the world was so powerful and many sided
Nativism
Paul season belief often influenced by nationalism scientific racism and mass migration that give preferential treatment to established inhabitants over immigrants
New imperialism
Then late 19th century drive by European countries to create vast political empires abroad
Afrikaners
Descendants of the Dutch settlers in the Cape colony in southern Africa
Berlin conference
The meeting of European leaders held in 1884 and 1885 in order to lay down some basic rules for imperialist competition and sub-Saharan Africa
White man’s burden
Yeah yeah that Europeans could and should the boys more primitive non-white peoples and imperialism would eventually provide non-whites with modern achievements in higher standards of living
Orientalism
a term coined by literary scholar Edward said to describe the way westerners misunderstood and described colonial subjects and cultures
Great rebellion
the 1857 and 1858 insurrection by Muslim and Hindu mercenaries in the British army that spread throughout Northern and Central India before finally being crushed
Meiji restoration
The restoration of the Japanese emperor to power in 1867 leading to the subsequent modernization of Japan
100 days of reform
A series of western style reforms launched in 1898by the Chinese government in an attempt to meet the foreign challenge