AP World Era 5 Key Concept 5.2

Question 1

What established transoceanic what?

Examples?

Answer 1

Industrializing powers; transoceanic empires
States with existing colonies (British in India)
European States established empires (Dutch, Americans and Japanese also establish empires, Spanish and Portuguese influence)
Empires in Africa (Belgium in the Congo)
Settler Colonies (The British in southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand)
Economic imperialism (The British and French expanding their influence in China through the Opium Wars)

Question 2

What influenced what and what around the world?

Examples?

Answer 2

Imperalism; state formation and contraction
The expansion of US and European influence over Tokugawa Japan led to the emergence of Meiji Japan
The US and Russia emulated European transoceanic imperialism by expanding their land borders and conquering neighboring territories
Contraction of Ottoman Empire (The establishment of independent states in the Balkans)
New states developed on the edges of existing empires (Cherokee Nation)
Nationalism as an ideology (The German nation)

Question 3

New racial ideologies, especially what, facilitated and justified imperialism?

Answer 3

Social Darwinism