IMPERSOFFALISM

Question 1

Imperialism definition

Answer 1

the practice of a country extending its influence over another through military and/or diplomatic force

Question 2

Old imperialism

Answer 2

mainly focused on finding new trade routes; also called the age of exploration. Wanted to spread christianity, find riches and have adventures (god gold glory)

Question 3

examples of old imperialism

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columbian exchange and atlantic slave trade

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New imperialism

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conquest was the focus, and used economical and technological means to make regions economically dependent as suppliers of raw materials and consumers on their mother countries. 84% of the world was colonized.

Question 5

similarities

Answer 5

Both were
- guided by a feeling of superiority
- exploited land labor and capital
- guided by civilizing or Christianity missions
- used new technology
- had the spirit of capitalism

Question 6

social darwinism

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“survival of the fittest” which meant that the best would survive while the worst would die out; only people interpreted this as white people being the best and other races being inferior (Thus creating the white man’s burden)

Question 7

White man’s burden

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When white people said that it was their job to go to non-white nations and “save” them or “civilize/educate” them.

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Mercantilism

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When a mother country forces a colony to only trade with the mother country, making the colony dependent on the mother country and the mother country becomes much richer AND controls the economy.

Question 9

Boers / Boer war

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Dutch white people who eventually saw themselves as africans in their own little colony. The British got into a war with them because they both felt entitled to the gold in south africa. THe british win, even after the Zulu tribe makes an attempt. However, the Boers end up ruling anyways since the british ruled in a detached way.

Question 10

King Leopold and the Belgian Congo

Answer 10

Basically owned his own colony (Congo), and he was brutal to the citizens while using their labor to provide for him. Photographs and mass media made people aware of this abuse and he had to stop.

Question 11

Opium War

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Demonstrated superiority of the British over china; was caused by China refusing to buy Opium from the british because the country was becoming full of addicts (the british got goods in return) but the British didn’t like that, and thus the war happened. This caused the Treaty of Nanjing

Question 12

Treaty of Nanjing

Answer 12

Established many things that helped the british economically:
- 5 ports would be open to british ships in china
- extraterritorial rights given to western powers
- fewer trade taxes for british
- British get Hong Kong
- China legalizes the opium trade.

Question 13

Empress Dowager Cixi

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Ruled during the late 1800s right after the Taiping Rebellion. Helped the British, most likely because she didn’t want the repercussions of going against them.

Question 14

Taiping Rebellion

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Peasant’s revolt; led by Hong Xiuquan and other peasants who were unhappy w/ the westerners influence on China. Taxes were raised on them, gov services lower and 20 million were killed during this.

Question 15

Boxer Rebellion

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A rebellion that started in the mountains of China, which was against western influence on china. They eventually became an underground society that hated anyone who was with the westerners, and blamed them for unemployment rates.

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Ethnocentrism

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Thinking one’s culture or race is superior to others.

Question 17

Japan and trade

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Japan had originally been very isolated, but once they started to be part of the western world they traded a bunch since they had very natural resources of their own (besides sea related). They also started colonizing themselves.

Question 18

Meiji Restoration

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The Japanese studied how western civilizations operated and adapted to them because they saw that they would be colonized if they didn’t. They felt the same effects that the europeans had felt before from their IR, such as more people living in cities and much more trade

Question 19

Berlin Conference

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Where european leaders meet to divide africa (Not a single african ruler invited.) THey put no thought into tribes or ethnic groups though, so they were often split between countries which caused an odd relationship between certain countries and groups.

Question 20

Shaka

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Leader of the Zulu during the Boer war

Question 21

Sepoy/Sepoy Mutiny

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A conflict between the Indian soldiers and the British ones; the grease and all that and this caused the british to officially take over india as a colony. THis also set off a want for Indian Independence

Question 22

British East India Company

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The company that took over india for the british, basically acted as a government, and engaged in a lot of mercantilism there.

Question 23

Qing/Manchus Dynasty

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Dynasty that ruled china before the west appeared, and was under a lot of pressure from the west

Question 24

Open Door Policy/Spheres of Influence

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Open Door Policy meant that China allowed merchants from other nations to trade with it, meaning that it could not be colonized. China was split into spheres of influence, where different countries were allowed to trade in different places.

Question 25

Tokugawa Shogunate

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a shogunate which lasted just about until the west came in, and really wanted isolation from there. They put the Act of Seclusion forward, which meant that if someone left japan they would not be allowed to come back, and trade was forbidden from inside other than CHina and Korea.

Question 26

Treaty of Kanagawa

Answer 26

The treaty that the US made Japan sign earlier on in order to get trade there.

Question 27

Commodore Perry

Answer 27

The dude who forced the Japanese to sign the Treaty of Kamagawa

Question 28

Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese War