What new form of transportation allowed Europeans to explore deep up African rivers?
Steam boats
What form of transportation allowed Europeans to pull out raw materials over land where no rivers existed (sometimes called the iron horse)?
Train
What new weapon helped Europeans kill large numbers of �weaker� people?
Maxim guns
What was the name of the poem by Kipling supporting racism, which encouraged imperialism?
The White Man's Burden
What was the name of the meeting where 14 European countries met to divide Africa amongst themselves?
Berlin Conference
Name two internal forces that made Africans vulnerable to attack from Europeans
Less superior weapons and tribal wars
Name the two European countries that fought for control of South Africa in the Boer War
Netherlands and Britain
What vocab term applies the theory of evolution (survival of the fittest) to the human race
Social Darwinism
Vocab term that means strong countries take over weak ones primarily to take their raw materials
Imperialism
Which European country practiced direct control over their colonies?
France
Vocab term which means to care for conquered people as though they were your children
Paternalism
Who was the leader that kept Ethiopia independent from European control?
Menelik II
Name two benefits Africans received from Imperialism
Reduced local warfare, improvement in schools, sanitation, hospitals
Vocab term that means a place is important based on its location or what it has to offer
Geopolitics
What man-made water short cut connects the Mediterranean and Red Seas through Egypt
Suez Canal
What European country was defeated after trying to take Ottoman lands in the Crimea?
Russia
Vocab term for British rule in India
Raj
Term used to define the growing of crops for sale, such as was practiced by the British in India
Cash crop
Term for Indian soldiers who worked for the British East India Company?
Sepoy
British Nickname for India
jewel in the crown
Which European country controlled Indochina
france
List two territories that the U.S. gained control of through the Spanish American war OR annexation
Hawaii and the philippines
Which Asian country maintained independence under King Mongkut
Siam
Which major port city did Britain win control of after the Opium War (and held for 99 years)
Hong Kong
In which Asian country were Europeans protected by Extraterritorial Rights
China
Before Opium was introduced, what was the only thing China would accept from Britain
Silver
Which major imperialist power did NOT have a Sphere of Influence in China, opting for an open door policy
The United States
What was the name of the American who tried to open Japan for trade
Matthew Perry
What country did the Meiji Era try to modernize
Japan
What country did the British get opium from to sell to the Chinese?
India
Term which means to be absorbed into another country's culture.
Assimilation
Which European country controlled most of northwest Africa by 1913?
France
What was the name of the treaty that ended the Opium War and punished China
Treaty of Nanking