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| How did the Industrial Revolution both cause imperialism and provide European with the ability to imperialize? | Cause: new factories need more raw materials to make goods with and markets to sell them in. New technology like the machine gun, that could kill hundreds at a time; quinine that allowed Europeans to live in the tropics without dying from malaria/sleeping sickness. |
| Victims and Perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide | Victims, Armenian Christians; Perpetrators, Ottoman Turks. |
| "Cause/Excuse" of Armenian Genocide | Accused them of spying for the Russians (also Orthodox Christians) during WWI; and there was a separatist movement with some Armenian nationalists trying to get their own nation |
| Method of carrying out the genocide | Many of the leaders in the Armenian community were rounded and executed, along with the young men; many of the rest were taken on death marches through the desert. |
| Results of the Armenian genocide? | The Turkish leaders responsible were not tried (though were later assassinated), land was supposed to be returned to the Armenians, but no enforced this.... So Hitler thought he would get away with the Holocaust... because "Who remembers the Armenians?" |
| Identify a specific Human right that was taken away in the Belgian Congo and explain how.. | 1. Freedom from forced servitude: forced to collect rubber, by kidnapping relatives or tribal leaders and holding them hostage. 2. Life - estimated 5 million killed, many died of overwork as builders of RR or as porters - or starve as the soldiers take their food - or force to work at rubber trade, etc. and have no time to grow food for their families. |
| define imperialism | One nation controls another, politically, economically and socially - 1800s to mid 1900s. ex. Britain controlling India |
| Explain at least one motive for imperialism | The Economic motive is on number one... raw materials and markets. 2. Nationalism - to get more colonies than other nations 3. Political/military - want more military bases. 4. Humanitarian ... to spread the benefits of western civilization (medicine, law codes, RRs, etc) part of the "White Man's Burden" 5. Religion, to spread their nation's version of Christianity, also part of the White Man's Burden. 6. Social Darwinism, some Europeans thought that they were racially superior to Asians and Africans and should either control them or destroy them. |
| Identify a positive and negative effect on the people that were imperialized | Such as Schools and RRs on the positive side, forced to grow cash crops, forced to work at building Roads and RRs, destruction of cultures, loss of resources/raw materials on the negative. You are not limited to these answers |
| Mercantilists of the 1500s and imperialists of the 1800s both thought that colonies were | sources of raw materials and markets |
| "There are millions of Africans waiting for pantalones/pants." Meant that some people thought that | Africa would be a market for European textiles. |
| social Darwinists | Applied survival of the fittest to the |
| Forms of imperialism included: | spheres of influence, protectorates, direct rule or indirect rule. |
| Results of Africa's topography and climate (geography) include: | 1. delayed imperialism 2. cultural diversity 3. rich in mineral resources (though not rich in fossil fuels), which still makes them a target of foreign intervention |
| Europeans often exploited ______________ & ______________ in their colonies. | Labor and resources... Often with the excuse of Christianizing them and civilizing them. |
| the Berlin Conference in 1884-1885 and the Treaty of Tordesailles in 1494 both | divided the area/world in segments controlled by Europeans |
| The colony which King Leopold used to make a vast fortune for himself in..., killing half of the population? | Belgian Congo |
| African group that initially beat the British in South Africa, they were 5 united tribes and fought with sowhide shields and stabbing spears? | Zulu |
| Method used by the British to conquer India and defeat the Zulu in South Africa? | Divide and Conquer |
| War between British and Dutch settlers (______ or Afrikaners), after the discovery of gold and diamonds .... | Boer War |
| How the British got the Boers to surrender... it led to a lasting dislike/distrust between the Afrikaners and British... | Women and Children taken to Concentration camps |
| genocide | to kill a group of people |
| What are most colonies forced to produce for the mother country? | cash crops... or some other commodity |
| Reason the Europeans can control their colonies is partly due to | Lack of unity - due to diverse languages and/or religions (ex. Hindus and Muslims in India) |
| Rebellion in India in 1857 with goal of driving out the British... | Sepoy Rebellion |
| Other rebellions that have tried to drive out foreigners/Westerners | 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China, 1979 Iranian Revolution |
| "White Man's Burden" | that Westerners must share their advanced civilization and religion to help their colonial subjects (ex. medicine and Christianity |
| Hindu practice (banned by the British) that required widows to jump on their husbands funeral pyre... | sati |
| Short term cause for the Sepoy Rebellion | animal fat on the bullets |
| Committed genocide of the Herero in Souuthwest Africa? | The Germans..., their first, but not last genocide of the 20th century |
| Italy and Germany had few colonies... in part b/c | They were not united until 1871.... therefore they had a late start. |
| Native leaders who fought to end imperialism were | Nationalists |
| Animal sacred to all Hindus ... they will not eat them (unless they are untouchables) | cows |
| Bantu people of Africa | migrated south and east (500BCE to 1500CE) looking for more farmland. They brought their language and iron working skills with them |
| Nation that was targeted by imperialists for its oil, and it still has a lot, but is working on nuclear power .... So they say... | Iran |
