Imperialism

Question 1

Imperialism

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Neo-imperialism

Answer 2

New Imperialism or Neo-imperialism was a period of colonial expansion by European powers, the United States, and the Empire of Japan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The period is distinguished by an unprecedented pursuit of overseas territorial acquisitions.

Question 3

King leopoid ll of Europe

Answer 3

Leopold II (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians, known for the founding and exploitation of the Congo Free State as a private venture. … His was the longest reign of any Belgian monarch.

Question 4

Scramble for Africa

Answer 4

The “Scramble for Africa” was the invasion, occupation, division, colonization and annexation of African territory by European powers during the period of New Imperialism, between 1881 and 1914. It is also called the Partition of Africa and the Conquest of Africa.

Question 5

Berlin conference

Answer 5

The Berlin Conference of 1884–85, also known as the Congo Conference (German: Kongokonferenz) or West Africa Conference (Westafrika-Konferenz), regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany’s sudden emergence as an imperial power.

Question 6

Shaka

Answer 6

The “shaka” sign is a common greeting in the Hawaiian culture, subsequently also used in surfer culture, and used as a sign of public school pride. The shaka sign, sometimes known as “hang loose”, is a gesture of friendly intent often associated with Hawaii, surf culture, and public school pride.

Question 7

Asante kingdom

Answer 7

A region and former kingdom of western Africa in present-day central Ghana. The powerful Ashanti confederation of states, formed in the late 17th century, was defeated by the British in 1896 and annexed to the British Gold Coast colony in 1901.

Question 8

Cecil Rhodes

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Cecil John Rhodes PC (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa, who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. … South Africa’s Rhodes University is also named after him.

Question 9

Union of South Africa

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The Union of South Africa is the historic predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa. It came into being on 31 May 1910 with the unification of four previously separate British colonies

Question 10

Suez Canal

Answer 10

Suez Canal. noun. a sea-level canal in NE Egypt, crossing the Isthmus of Suez and linking the Mediterranean with the Red Sea: built (1854–69) by de Lesseps with French and Egyptian capital; nationalized in 1956 by the Egyptians.

Question 11

The Mahdi annex

Answer 11

the Muslim messiah, an expected spiritual and temporal ruler destined to establish a reign of righteousness throughout the world.

Question 12

Protectorate

Answer 12

a state that is controlled and protected by another.

Question 13

Indirect rule

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a system of government of one nation by another in which the governed people retain certain administrative, legal, and other powers.

Question 14

Federation of indochina

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an area in SE Asia, formerly a French colonial federation including Cochin-China, the protectorates of Annam, Cambodia, Tonkin, and Laos, and the leased territory of Kwangchowan: now comprising the three independent states of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Capital: Hanoi. Expand. Compare Indochina.

Question 15

Colonialist

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a person who supports the practice of gaining political control over other countries and occupying them with settlers.

Question 16

Exploitation

Answer 16

the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.

Question 17

Menelik ii

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Menelik II was king of Shewa and emperor of Ethiopia (1889). He expanded the empire, repelled an Italian invasion, and modernized Ethiopia

Question 18

Sphere of influence

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a country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.

Question 19

Settlement colonies

Answer 19

Settler colonialism is a form of colonial formation whereby foreign people move into a region. An imperial power oversees the immigration of these settlers who consent, often only temporarily, to government by that authority.

Question 20

Dependent colonies

Answer 20

colony in which a majority native population is ruled by a small number of representatives from the controlling nation.

Question 21

King chulalongiorn

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Chulalongkorn (1853-1910) was king of Thailand from 1868 to 1910. … Born in the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand (Siam), on Sept. 20, 1853, Chulalongkorn was the ninth child of King Mongkut but the first son to be born to a royal queen.

Question 22

Assimilation

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the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.

Question 23

Panama canal

Answer 23

The Panama Canal is an artificial 48-mile waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade.

Question 24

White mans burden

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the task that white colonizers believed they had to impose their civilization on the black inhabitants of their colonies.

Question 25

Missionary

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a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.

Question 26

Meji restoration

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also known as the Meiji Ishin, Renovation, Revolution, Reform, or Renewal, was an event of change that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.

Question 27

Samoa

Answer 27

relating to Samoa, its people, or their language.

Question 28

Guam

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An unincorporated territory of the United States, the largest and most southerly of the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. Inhabited since ancient times by the Chamorro people, Guam was visited by Magellan in 1521 and ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898. Agana is the capital.

Question 29

Spanish American war

Answer 29

A war between Spain and the United States, fought in 1898. The war began as an intervention by the United States on behalf of Cuba. … The United States acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines in the war and gained temporary control over Cuba.

Question 30

Sino-Japanese war

Answer 30

the war (1894–95) between China and Japan over the control of Korea that resulted in the nominal independence of Korea and the Chinese cession to Japan of Formosa and the Pescadores. 2. the war that began in 1937 as a Japanese invasion of China and ended with the World War II defeat of Japan in 1945.

Question 31

Treaty of shimonoseki

Answer 31

was a treaty signed at the Shunpanrō hall, Shimonoseki, Japan on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and the Qing Empire, ending the First Sino-Japanese War. The peace conference took place from March 20 to April 17, 1895.

Question 32

Mumbai

Answer 32

Mumbai (/mʊmˈbaɪ/; also known as Bombay, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India and the ninth most populous agglomeration in the world, with an estimated city population of 18.4 million.

Question 33

bombay

Answer 33

City in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea. It is now officially called Mumbai. Note: India’s second-largest city, after Calcutta, Bombay is the only natural deep-water harbor in western India.

Question 34

Russo-Japanese war

Answer 34

A war fought in 1904–1905 between Russia and Japan over rival territorial claims. In winning the war, Japan emerged as a world power. Note: President Theodore Roosevelt of the United States was largely responsible for bringing the two sides together and working out a treaty.

Question 35

Dutch East Indies

Answer 35

was a Dutch colony. It was formed from the nationalised colonies of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Dutch government in 1800.

Question 36

Treaty of nanjing

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The Treaty of Nanking or Nanjing was a peace treaty which ended the First Opium War (1839–42) between the United Kingdom and the Qing dynasty of China on 29 August 1842. It was the first of what the Chinese later called the unequal treaties on the ground that Britain had no obligations in return.

Question 37

Oplum war

Answer 37

a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.

Question 38

The taping rebellion

Answer 38

was a massive rebellion or civil war in China that lasted from 1850 to 1864 fought between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the …

Question 39

Open door policy

Answer 39

The Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay’s Open Door Note, dated September 6, 1899 and dispatched to the major European powers.

Question 40

Self strengthening movement

Answer 40

was a period of institutional reforms initiated in China during the late Qing dynasty following a series of military defeats and concessions to foreign powers.