Final #3 Flashcards
When did the Industrial Revolution happen?
At the same time as all of the Enlightenment Revolutions.
How did the Industrial Revolution get its name?
B/c of its name given to the global development and rise of industrial technology and the transition from wide-spread agricultrue to manufacturing c. 1750-1850 CE
Where did people move during the industrial revolution?
From the country to the city
Prior to the Industrial Revolution roughly ___% of people were involved in farming in some way. Today in America, it is around ___%.
80; 1
What was a crucial invention of the Industrial Revolution?
Steam Engine
What did Steam Engines originally run on?
Coal
What was the steam engine orginally used for?
To pump water out of the mines
What elements did the Steam Engines use?
Water, gears, and wheels
What launches the larger revolution?
The comination of the mills, the water, iron, coal, and child labor.
What lead to the one of the greatest industrial projects in American History, The Erie Canal?
the intersection of water, transportation, and Industry
What was one essential form of communication?
The Telegraph
List some inventions that come from the Industrial Revolution?
The Flying Shuttle, spinning Jenny, and Factories
Did the Industrial Revolution make slavery better or worse?
Worse
What is imperialism?
Spreading your country’s influence and control through diplomacy, trade, or military force.
What is colonialism?
The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country or territory, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
________ often involves ________ and is often fueled by _________ all of which expanded with the Industrial Revolution.
Imperialism; Colonialism; Nationalism
Imperialism is associated with _______ and had been a factor since ancient ___________, but with the Industrial Revolution came exapanded _________, __________, and ________ along with a need for more materials
Empire; Mesopotamia; weapons; transportations; communications
What is otherixing?
When you think of people as something “other” than you
When did linguists develop the Ind-European theory?
1800CE
What is Indo-European?
That there was some proto-language from which many later languages developed including Greek, Hindi, Persian, etc.
What are Caucasians?
Orginally a people from in and around the Caucasus Mountain range - i.e. Persia
In an early theory, who did the Aryan people conquer and implement?
They conquered the Dravidians and then implemented everything good that ever came out of Inidia, including Sanskirt, Hinduism, chess, science, and math
Was Aryan a title or a people?
A title
Rome represented the…
Pinnacle of Empire
Greece represented the…
Pinnacle of Culture and the greatest conquerer of all time
Greece and Rome were the models for…
The Imperialist Nation-State and begin to turn up in numerous aspects of soiety
Where did the fascination with the classical world come from?
The Indo-European ideology that Greece and the Greeks were the foundation of Western civilization. Also, it was the product of a common activity among the young wealthy elites called the Grand Tour (late 17th cnetury to c. 1840_
Archaeology as a subset of ____________ is …
Athropology; usually focused on a study of human activity in the past and in particular their creation and use of material culture and the recovery of that material.
In _______, Europeans controlled roguhly ___% of Africa.
1881; 10
By the start of ______ in _____, the Europeans would control ____% of Africa.
WWI; 1914; 90
Why is everyone so interested in Africa?
It has been rich in resources, metals, minerals, plants, animals, and slaves
Why is it challeneging to conquer Africa?
It has a wide variety of regions, climates, complications, difficlut to access, and the locals fight back
What were the pull factor to Africa?
God, diamonds, blood diamonds, natural reources (lumber cacao), ivory
What was the Macxim Gun?
The world’s first machine gun
How did the name Scramble for Africa come to be?
It was given to the division and rapid colonization of Africa by Western European Nations
What was the Suex Canal?
In 1869, it was originally built by the French Suez Canal Company in conjunction with the Egyptian government linked the Mediterranean with the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
What was the significance of the Suex Canal?
It eliminated the need to go around Africa and gave easy access to all the coastal areas of the continent from any direction.
Who got control of the Suex Canal in 1882?
The British
What was the Berlin Conference of 1884?
Germna Chancellor Otto von Bismarck hosted a meeting where they literally sat around a table and carved up Africa for colonization.
The only African territroes to survive the Scramble for Afric were…
Ethiopia, fought off Italy, and Liberia, fought off America