L1: Colonial Contexts

Question 1

What did Spanish priests want to do to Amerindian people? (1)

What issue did they face? (1)

Answer 1

Convert them to Christianity (1)

They needed in-depth knowledge of Amerindian cultures (1)

Question 2

What is the difference between modern ethnography and teh writing produced in the past that SEEMED ethnographic? (1)

Answer 2

Writing in the past was produced with the AIM of eradicating indigenous religions (1)

Question 3

What is Nationalism?

How was it used to justify colonial expansion? (1)

Answer 3

Nationalism is a shared sense of culture and identity (!)

European unity and supposed cultural superiority of Europeans justified colonial expansion (1)

Question 4

What is industrialisation? (1)

What did this improve? (1)

Answer 4

Technological innovations that allowed for mass production, increased wealth and investment in further technologies (1)

Improved transportation links and communications (1)

Question 5

What were the three incentives that motiavted systems for colonisation? (3)

Answer 5

Political incentives (1)

Economic incentives (1)

Cultural incentives (1)

Question 6

What were political incentives for colonialisation? (1)

Answer 6

Increasing power, prestige and national status

Question 7

What were economic incentives for colonialism? (2)

Answer 7

Demand for raw materials for manufactoring (cotton, minerals, copper and tin) (1)

Luxury items for sale (tobacco, fur, coffee, sugar) (1)

Question 8

What were cultural incentives for colonisation? (2)

Answer 8

Ideas of progress related to superiority and inferiority (1)

Notions of civilisation (1)

Question 9

What were the three tools of colonialisation? (3)

Answer 9

Technologies (1)

Forms of governance (1)

Settlement (1)

Question 10

What are examples of technologies as a tool of colonialisation? (3)

Answer 10

Travel (1)

Communications (1)

Weapons (1)

Question 11

What are examples of forms of governance as a tool of colonisation? (2)

Answer 11

Direct governance - settler colonialism (1)

Indiect - protectorates (1)

Question 12

What are examples of settlement as a tool of colonialisation? (2)

Answer 12

The arrival of the wives and children of the governing classes (1)

Other immigrants (1)

Question 13

What were the evolutionary ideas in the 19th centurty? (1)

Answer 13

Humans shared the same biological makeup but evolved through different stages over time

Question 14

How were people classified? (2)

Answer 14

Based on measurements and physical difference