Unit XIII Imperialism Flashcards
What is imperialism?
Control of one people by another
What is the exception for the old imperialism?
the “new world”
How much of the world was held by Europe?
84%
How is new imperialism being done?
by military force
Why does Europe impose their ideas?
they feel they are supior in religion and politically
What is the model for new Imperialism?
British control over Egypt
What are the two major causes?
raw materials and new markets
What are the raw materials wanted?
diamands, cocoa, tea, cotten, spices, ivory, wood
What are missionaries wanting?
to Christianize the world
How are the colonies protected?
instituting military bases
Why are Germany and France having trouble with imperialism?
had to unify first
What was the justification of imperialism?
the improving of the cultures and people of the world
What nations of Africa were not controlled?
Liberia, and Ethiopia
What was the Berlin Conference?
set the rules for Imperialism in Africa
What was Leopold II doing?
taking control of the Congo
How was Africa treated?
like savages almost like the holocaust
What did Belgium do to leopold?
took away his colony of the congo
What is the fate of South Africa?
does not have a chance to maintain its pocession
Who had control over Egypt?
the ottomans
What is the most important Canal of Europe?
Suez
Who was the Prime minister during the building of the suez canal?
Disraeli
What is a protectorate?
a state controlled by a larger state
Which way does the Nile flow?
North
What is jinglism?
Super patriotisms
Where did the Christians flee to?
Kartune
What technology is way too far supior?
Machine gun
How was africa split?
through friendly partitioning
Why did Rhodes want to have influence over the Boers?
gold and diamonds
Did the Boers win?
yes
Who celebrated them?
Germany
Was Rhodes rich?
yes
What was the transvall region?
diamonds and gold
Boer’s were descendents of who?
the dutch
What telegram congratuated the Boer’s?
Kruger Telegram
Who organized the Berlin Conference?
Bismark and Ferry
Who were the last of the Europeans to participate in Africa?
Italy
Who had a monopoly on the drug trade?
Brittian
Why did China not like Britian?
Opium was a highly addictive drug that was hurting China
What city did Britian gain in China?
Hong Kong
Did the Indian’s like the British?
no
How did Britian control India?
directly
What is building in India?
nationalism
Where did the Sepoy’s first rebel?
Deli
What were the postive effects of British imperialisms in India?
industry, schools, weopons
Did the Boxer’s gain the governments support at all?
yes just not in military
What did the boxers want to do?
clense China
What Matthew Perry (MCPerry) want to do?
open Japan
Why did Japan want to reform?
to compete and modernize with Europe
What was the Miji?
“Western” widespread reforms in Japan
Did the reforms of Japan work?
yes
What was the treaty between Japan and Russia? Who won?
Portsmouth; Japan
What did Russia want?
the balkans
Which European power is associated most strongly with the “Civilizing Mission,” the idea that European nations had a duty to spread their culture?
France
Between the late 1870s and about 1912, European powers established control over African territories through
The “Scramble for Africa”
The modern Western missionary movement originated in
Great Britain
Nineteenth-century anthropologists
Believed in a hierarchy of races
“The Great Game” refers to
Russian-British rivalry over Afghanistan
In independent Christian churches in Africa,
The leaders were African
Which of these groups was most often responsible for introducing Western medicine into the colonial setting?
Missionaries
Which country was known as “the workshop of the world”?
Great Britain
At the end of the First Opium War, Great Britain gained all of the following EXCEPT
Shanghai
What was the shared element in the Hobson and Lenin theories of imperialism?
Both proposed that capitalists, in their quest for expanded markets, pressured governments to acquire colonies
What does Gustav Schmoller claim is the goal of German expansion?
To allow Germans “to live and sustain a growing population
Starting in the late eighteenth century, the tsarist government viewed conquered peoples as
Foreign
Why was West Africa called “the white man’s graveyard”?
Europeans had a high death rate from tropical diseases
