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| 6530851438 | summarize the economic, political, and cultural motives of nineteenth-century imperialists...to what extent did those motives overlap and to what extent did they conflict with one another? | overseas colonies offered source for raw materials, inspire nationalism, give place for overflow populations to go, take strategically beneficial spots for the military, convert to Christianity, civilize natives. | 0 | |
| 6530878980 | what were the principle tools of empire---the various technologies that gave the Europeans such an advantage? | maxim gun, steamships/railroads, telegraph | 1 | |
| 6530896172 | how did the British establish control over India in the early nineteenth century? how did the sepoy mutiny contribute to this process? | company rule (English east India company), Sepoy Mutiny (sepoys rise up after rumors of being issued rifles lubricated with pig and cow fat) resulted in the British abolishing the Mughal empire, exiled emperor to Burma, British abolish English East India Company in favor of direct rule, utilized a viceroy and used elite Indian civil service staffed by the British | 2 | |
| 6530993745 | what Asian states managed to maintain their sovereignty in the nineteenth century? why these states? | China, Thailand, Persia, Tibet, Afghanistan, Arabia, Siam, Japan... China- spheres of influence, politically autonomous but not economically; Siam- served as buffer state between Britain in Indian and French Indo-China; Japan-Meiji restoration helped Japan to master imperialism so they could avoid being conquered; Afghanistan-Russian and Britain desperately want Afghanistan | 3 | |
| 6531156516 | who were the major players in the scramble for Africa? what was the principle objective of this land-grab? | Britain and France= major players; develop commercial ventures, carve the continent into colonies, establish trading market, resources (especially rubber), missionary activity | 4 | |
| 6534374864 | compare the British conquest of South Africa with that of Egypt and Sudan. | South Africa: British outlaw slavery and disrupt Afrikaner financial viability and lifestyle and so they began to leave ("Great Trek") but when Brits discovered diamonds and gold they brought in a lot of miners who got in conflicts with the Afrikaners which accumulated into the Boer Wars Egypt and Sudan: Britain came into Egypt and Egypt began to rely heavily on them for finances to build up their army, eventually they got into debt and they had to charge high taxes, the taxing made citizens angry and there were uprisings so the British military came in to ensure the safety of British financial interests and make sure the Suez canal was constructed well | 5 | |
| 6534450968 | why were the great powers less interested in the Pacific Islands? What did they want from these islands? | they didn't want to go to the trouble of having to start outright colonies, mostly they just wanted to seek commercial opportunities and reliable bases for operation | 6 | |
| 6534466938 | What did the United States gain from the Spanish-American War? | US took control of Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba, the Philippines (so that they didn't go to Japan or Germany) | 7 | |
| 6535011725 | where did the Japanese direct their ambitions as a new imperial power? how successful were they? | they wanted to get rid of the unequal treaties set on them by the US, vast expansion of the military; they were successful and established themselves as an imperial power that could run with the larger world players of the time | 8 | |
| 6535244317 | how did the imperial powers transform the economies of their colonies? | encouraged growers to grow cotton for export and not local consumption, built railroads, converted rain forests in Ceylon to tea plantations, rubber plantations | 9 | |
| 6535281384 | Summarize some of the significant migrations of the late nineteenth century. What were some typical destinations? | Europeans to South America, South Africa, US (including Hawaii), Japanese to Hawaii and Peru, Chinese to Cuba and Peru and Malaya and Austrailia | 10 | |
| 6535321536 | How did subject peoples resist colonial rule? how did imperialism foster conflicts within colonial societies? | they resisted colonial rule by boycotting European goods, organizing political parties and pressure groups, publishing anticolonial newspapers and magazines, and pursuing anticolonial policies through churches and religious groups; conflicts fostered by high taxes, tyrants of colonial rule, intro of European schools and education, requirements to grow certain crops/provide compulsory labor | 11 |
