C. 24 wor-def (Im)

Question 1

Neo-Europes

Answer 1

a concept for widespread European colonization of geographically distinct areas across the world, the behaviours that settlers displayed and the ecological changes they initiated

Question 2

Opium Wars

Answer 2

Between 1839 and 1842, British forces fought a war in China that benefitted drug smugglers. Their subsequent victory in the conflict opened up the lucrative Chinese trade to British merchants.

Question 3

Nativism

Answer 3

the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of native/indigenous or established inhabitants over those of immigrants, including the support of immigration-restriction measures

Question 4

Imperialism

Answer 4

a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

Question 5

Berlin Conference

Answer 5

met on 15 November 1884, and after an adjournment concluded on 26 February 1885, with the signature of a General Act, regulating the European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.

Question 6

White Man’s Burden

Answer 6

presents the conquering of non-white races as white people’s selfless moral duty

Question 7

Cecil Rhodes

Answer 7

an imperialist, businessman and politician who played a dominant role in southern Africa in the late 19th Century, driving the annexation of vast swathes of land. He founded the De Beers diamond firm which until recently controlled the global trade

Question 8

King Leopold II (Habsburg?)

Answer 8

established the Congo Free State by brutally seizing the African landmass as his personal possession. Rather than control the Congo as a colony, as other European powers did throughout Africa, Leopold privately owned the region

Question 9

Henry M. Stanley

Answer 9

a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician who was famous for his exploration of Central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

Question 10

J. A. Hobson

Answer 10

an English economist and social scientist. Hobson is best known for his writing on imperialism, which influenced Vladimir Lenin, and his theory of underconsumption.

Question 11

Meiji Restoration

Answer 11

the political revolution in 1868 that brought about the final demise of the Tokugawa shogunate (military government)—thus ending the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867)—and, at least nominally, returned control of the country to direct imperial rule under Mutsuhito (the emperor

Question 12

Qing Dynasty

Answer 12

the final imperial dynasty in China, lasting from 1644 to 1912. It was an era noted for its initial prosperity and tumultuous final years, and for being only the second time that China was not ruled by the Han people.