9214354873 | Opium Wars | Conflicts between China and Great Britain over the British Trade in opium | 0 | |
9214357938 | Treaty of Nanjing | Opened British trade in China, ended Opium War | 1 | |
9214361000 | Gunboat Diplomacy | The use or threat of military force to coerce a government into economic or political agreements | 2 | |
9214362654 | global mass migration | the mass movement of people from Europe in the nineteenth century | 3 | |
9214365096 | nativism | policies and beliefs, often influenced by nationalism, scientific racism, and mass migration, that give preferential treatment of established inhabitants over immigrants | 4 | |
9214368202 | new imperialism | late 19th C. drive by European countries to create vast political empires abroad | 5 | |
9214370277 | Afrikaners | descendants of the Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony in southern Africa | 6 | |
9214371681 | Berlin Conference | a meeting of European leaders held in 1884 and 1885 in order to lay down some basic rules for imperialist competition in sub-Saharan Africa | 7 | |
9214374986 | white man's burden | The idea that Europeans could and should civilize more primitive nonwhite peoples and that imperialism would eventually provide nonwhites with modern achievements and higher standards of living | 8 | |
9214378389 | Orientalism | a term coined by literary scholar Edward Said to describe the way Westerners misunderstood and described colonial subjects and cultures | 9 | |
9214380467 | Great Rebellion | The 1857 and 1858 insurrection by Muslim and Hindu mercenaries in the British army that spread throughout northern and central India before finally being crushed | 10 | |
9214385593 | Meiji Restoration | The restoration of the Japanese emperor to power in 1867, leading to the subsequent modernization of Japan | 11 | |
9214387308 | hundred days of reform | A series of western-style reforms launched in 1898 by the Chinese government in an attempt to meet the foreign challenge | 12 | |
9214390541 | Sino-Japanese War | Conflict between Japan and China over territory in Korea | 13 | |
9214391930 | Russo-Japanese War | Conflict between Japan and Russia over territory in Korea and Manchuria | 14 | |
9214398698 | Scramble for Africa | Panic to control territory in Africa after the Berlin Conference | 15 |
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