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

a period of colonial expansion by European powers, the United States, and the Empire of Japan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Question 3

King Leopoid II of Europe

Answer 3

King of the Belgians (1865-1909). He acquired and harshly ruled the Congo Free State (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) as a private colony from 1876 to 1908, when he was forced to cede it to the Belgian state.

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, 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

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

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: Cape Colony, Natal Colony, Transvaal Colony and Orange River Colony.

Question 10

Suez Canal

Answer 10

a canal in NE Egypt, cutting across the Isthmus of Suez and connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.

Question 11

The Mahdi Annex

Answer 11

to incorporate (territory) into the domain of a city, country, or state.

Question 12

Protectorate

Answer 12

a state that is controlled and protected by another

Question 13

Indirect Rule

Answer 13

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

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

Colonialist

Answer 15

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

Answer 17

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

Answer 18

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

a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation.

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 Chulalongjorn

Answer 21

Chulalongkorn was the ninth son of King Mongkut, but since he was the first to be born to a royal queen, he was recognized as heir to the throne.

Question 22

Assimilation

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Panama canal

Answer 23

Waterway across the Isthmus of Panama. The canal connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

Question 24

White Man’s Burden

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Missionary

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Meiji restoration

Answer 26

The Meiji Restoration, 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

Samoa is an country comprising the westernmost group of the Samoan Islands, in Polynesia.

Question 28

Guam

Answer 28

an island, belonging to the U.S., in the N Pacific, E of the Philippines: the largest of the Marianas group.

Question 29

Spanish American war

Answer 29

A war between Spain and the United States, fought in 1898.

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.

Question 31

Treaty of Shimonoseki

Answer 31

The Treaty of Shimonoseki 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.

Question 32

Mumbai

Answer 32

Mumbai (formerly called Bombay) is a densely populated city on India’s west coast.

Question 33

Bombay

Answer 33

a former state in W 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.

Question 35

Dutch East Indies

Answer 35

a former name of the Republic of Indonesia.

Question 36

Treaty of Nanjing

Answer 36

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.

Question 37

Treay of Nanjing

Answer 37

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.

Question 38

Opium war

Answer 38

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 39

Dutch east indies

Answer 39

1. a former name of the Republic of Indonesia

Question 40

Self-strengthening movement

Answer 40

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

Question 41

Express CIXI

Answer 41

was a Chinese empress dowager and regent who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years from 1861 until her death in 1908.

Question 42

Boxer Rebellion

Answer 42

a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there.

Question 43

Rammojun Roy

Answer 43

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of the Brahmo Sabha movement in 1828, which engendered the Brahmo Samaj, an influential socio-religious reform movement

Question 44

Indian Revolt of 1857

Answer 44

The rebellion began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company’s army on 10 May 1857, in the cantonment of the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic Plains and central India

Question 45

Thailand

Answer 45

Thailand is a Southeast Asian country. It’s known for tropical beaches, opulent royal palaces, ancient ruins and ornate temples displaying figures of Buddha.

Question 46

Xhoas Cattle Killing

Answer 46

was the Xhosa prophetess whose prophecies led to a millennialist movement that culminated in the Xhosa cattle-killing crisis of 1856–1857, in what is now the Eastern Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa.

Question 47

Natural resources

Answer 47

materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.

Question 48

Java

Answer 48

coffee

Question 49

Sumatra

Answer 49

Sumatra, a large Indonesian island west of Java and south of the Malay Peninsula, is known for its rugged tropical terrain, wildlife and smoldering volcanoes.

Question 50

David Livingstone

Answer 50

was a Scottish congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa, one of the most popular national heroes of the late-19th-century in Victorian Britain.