13453424916 | Reasons for European Imperialism- | 1. Raw materials 2. Markets 3. Invests 4. Nationalism/ Imperial Expansion | 0 | |
13453448872 | What materials made expansion possible? | The empires had faster steamships, better guns, and global communications which gave them an advantage. Quinine helped prevent Malaria. | 1 | |
13453475688 | Anglo-Saxonism | "Whites" must be superior to "lesser" races. The whites were "smarter and stronger". Better technology led to this. | 2 | |
13453495658 | Social Darwinism | The belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle. | 3 | |
13453515563 | Second Wave Countries | 1. Germany 2. Belgium 3. Japan 4. United States 5. Italy | 4 | |
13453522017 | First Wave Countries | 1. France 2. Britain 3. Dutch 4. Spain 5. Portugal | 5 | |
13453540319 | European Military Superiority | Advantage with weapons such as the Maxim Gun, an early machine gun used against lightly armed Asia and Africa. | 6 | |
13453557169 | Slow Imperial Creep in India and Indonesia | Engaged in a slow and unplanned but steady expansion of territory. Millions of Asians were brought under control of the British Raj and the Dutch East Indies. | 7 | |
13453597938 | The Scramble for Africa and Rapid Expansion Elsewhere | In Africa and certain Asian colonies, the European invasion and conquest was unexpected, sudden, and devastating. Unable to understand European motives and techniques, various kingdoms were completely overwhelmed by the imperial invaders. The Boer war was in South Africa. It took some time to colonize. | 8 | |
13453642835 | Settler Colonialism and Mass Death in the Pacific | In New Zealand, Australia, and Hawaii, isolated populations were invaded by white settlers and their diseases. | 9 | |
13453660002 | American and Russian Expansion | Both engaged in expansion across vast stretches of continental land, displacing indigenous people. The United States would also expand with the Spanish-American War. Freed slaves to Liberia. | 10 | |
13453703890 | Japanese Colonization in Taiwan and Korea | In East Asia, a newly industrialized Japan flexed its muscles by annexing the island of Taiwan and the Korean Peninsula. | 11 | |
13453727953 | America and Britain | Where America and Britain goes, it's army follows. | 12 | |
13453741743 | Defiant Ethiopia and Diplomatic Siam | The two leading exceptions to the wave of imperialism were Ethiopia (Italy) and Siam (Present Thailand), which used diplomacy and accommodations to avoid imperial annexation. | 13 | |
13453774624 | Soldiers Administrators and Local Rulers | Various local rulers from Indian rajas to African chiefs served as a key source of exercising indirect power over colonial societies. Each of these collaborating groups expected some form of reward for their service and loyalty to conquerers. | 14 | |
13453799441 | A Small Western-Educated Elite | The colonizers often viewed them with suspicion and disdain and the colonized might view them as having thrown their lot in with conquerors. | 15 | |
13453816594 | Indian Rebellion, 1857-1858 | Colonial rule had numerous revolts, both small and large. One of the most important was the Sepoys. The revolt was brutally crashed. | 16 | |
13453960630 | Radical Boundaries | Used a "Specific Racism" to justify the firm radical barriers between colonizers and colonized. Strict classes! Casts | 17 | |
13454002225 | Settlers Colonialism in South Africa | Settlers colonies, where there larger populations of white settlers, systems of racial exclusions were developed for racial separation known as Apartheid. | 18 | |
13454023512 | Impacts on Daily Life | Americanize, Westernize!! *The rights do not follow the flag. As America colonizes, the places we go, they don't have the same rights. | 19 | |
13454062375 | "Traditional India" and "Tribal Africa" | Empires developed systems and sciences to study, organize, and control colonial studies. | 20 | |
13454074212 | Eurocentury | European Ideas | 21 | |
13454076677 | Gendering The Empires: | White men were to be virile and hyper-masculine while colonized men were typically feminized unless they fit into useful class. White women were placed on the pedestal. | 22 | |
13459190419 | Political Contradictions and hypocrisies: | The result was a sharp contrast between governmental practice and ideology at home and in the colonies. No governmental ideas and individualism in colonies!! | 23 |
AP World History Chapter 18 Flashcards
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