Unit 6 MOKP and vocab

Question 1

Imperialism

Answer 1

Policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries.

Question 2

Extraterritoriality

Answer 2

The right of foreign residents to live under the laws of their native country and disregard the laws of host … Europeans in China and Ottoman

Question 3

Sphere of Influence

Answer 3

Outside power claims exclusive trading or investment in like ports and usually forced

Question 4

Social Darwinism

Answer 4

Justification for imperialism and application of Charles Darwin and evolutiokn

Question 5

Economic imperialism

Answer 5

Independent but less developed nations controlled by private business.

Question 6

White Dominions

Answer 6

Colonies where the overwhelming majority of populations were white..small number of native inhabitants.

Question 7

Protectorate

Answer 7

A country or territory with its own internal government but under the control of an outside power.

Question 7

Contested Settler societies

Answer 7

Large-scale European settlements despite existence of developed native population.

Question 8

Ethnic enclave

Answer 8

Geographic area with high ethnic concentration cultural identity economic activity..like a residential area.

Question 9

Monoculture

Answer 9

Agricultural practice of growing only one crop, plant, or livestock species.

Question 10

Diaspora

Answer 10

A scattered population who came from a different place…

Question 10

White man’s burden

Answer 10

Phrase the originated from Rudyard Kipling’s poem..used by white cylinders to justify their alleged duty to care for the nonwhite indigenous subjects in their colonial possessions.

Question 11

Banana Republic

Answer 11

Politically unstable country with an economy dependent entirely on revenue from exporting single product or resource..like banks..it’s also a derogatory term.

Question 11

Dowager Cixi

Answer 11

Chinese empress and regent who controlled late Qing

Question 12

Mangal Pandey

Answer 12

1827 Sepoy soldier who played a key part in the events immediately before the start of the Indian Rebellion.

Question 12

Meiji Emperor

Answer 12

Emperor of Japan who ruled over period of change and political reforms..more power..japan industrializes 1852

Question 13

Commodore Matthew Perry

Answer 13

1794 played a key role in opening Japan to the west…father of the steam navy in US.

Question 13

Shaka Zulu

Answer 13

Founder of Southern Africa’s Zulu Empire who reformed the Zulu army and their military tactics.

Question 14

Muhammad ALi

Answer 14

Egypt guy..self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan.

Question 15

Cecil Rhodes

Answer 15

1853-1902 English born South African businessman responsible for helping claim much of Africa for Great Britain from Cape Town to Cairo.

Question 16

Queen Victoria

Answer 16

Longest reigning monarch of uk

Question 17

King Leopoldo II

Answer 17

1835-1909 King of Belgium and sole owner of the Congo Free State in Africa, where he used forced labor to acquire rubber.

Question 18

Lin Zexu.

Answer 18

Chinese governor general under the Qing emperor who forcibly opposed the opium trade, ultimately claimed for the First Opium War – the result which ultimately humiliated china

Question 19

Menelik II

Answer 19

1844 emperor of Ethiopia whose policies created modern Ethiopia – victory in the Battle of Adwa allowed Ethiopia to defeat Italy and stop the Europeans from trying to control Ethiopia

Question 20

Hong Xiuqian

Answer 20

1814-1864 Leader of Taiping Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty; he established the taiping himself the “Heavenly king” and brother of Jesus Christ.

Question 21

Hiram Maxim

Answer 21

1840-1916 American-born British inventor best known as the creator of the first portable fully automatic machine, the Maxim gun which allowed the British and other European powers to forcibly take territory with little loss to themselves.

Question 22

Ferdinand de Lesseps

Answer 22

French diplomat and developer of the Suez Canal which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas thereby reducing sailing distances and times between Europe and East Asia.

Question 23

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 23

Monroe doctrine warned erysipelas powers to keep out of the americas…us had the right to exercise military force in Latin American countries to keep Europeans out.

Question 24

James K polk

Answer 24

President 11th for extending territory of US during Mexican American war.