imperialism

colony

A region governed internally by a foreign government

**Imperialism**

**A stronger country that dominates a weaker country**

**Meiji restoration**

A period of rapid modernization, westernization, and industrialization in Japan after the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

sepoy

Indian soldier serving in the British military

What superior technologies did imperialized nations have?

**Steamships and riverboats**

**Telegraph**

**Medicine (quinine)**

**Weapons – Maxim machine gun**

**Warships**

**What was a cause of the Sepoy Rebellion?**

Forced to violate their Religious Beliefs: Gun Cartridges coated in **beef or pork fat**

**3** Causes for Imperialism

**Raw materials**

**Market for finished goods**

**Christianize/ Educate – White Man’s Burden**

**Social Darwinism**

**Need for harbors and military bases**

extraterritoriality

Living in one country, but following the laws of your native country

**Positive Effects  of imperialism** 

**the Europeans built roads, railroads, schools, hospitals and factories. Improved agriculture.**

social darwinism

Belief that European nations were superior to all others and had the right to dominate weaker races

**What was the "Scramble for Africa"?**

European countries racing to get pieces of land from Africa for themselves

**"White Man's Burden"**

A poem that justified Imperialism that said Europeans had a moral duty to help the "uncivilized" people

**What was the result of the Sepoy Rebellion?**

**India became a colony of Britain**

**Open Door Policy**

A policy, proposed by the US in 1899, under which all nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China.

opium war

War between Great Britain and China over restrictions to foreign trade (think Drugs)

**Berlin Conference**

1884 conference by European leaders to divide up Africa hosted by Bismarck

**Sino-Japanese War**

War between China and Japan in which Japan gained Taiwan

**Sphere of Influence**

An area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges

boxer rebellion

A peasant revolt in China aimed at ending foreign influence in that country

**Treaty of Nanjing**

**UNEQUAL TREATY**" to end Opium War in which China had to accept British terms for peace - Britain gained control of Hong Kong

**King Leopold II**

Butcher of the Congo, became the ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908) and brutally exploited the native people

**Sati**

Hindu custom that called for a widow to join her husband in death by throwing herself on his funeral pyre.

**Ethiopia & Liberia**

Two countries not colonized in Africa

**How did Ethiopia keep their independence?**

**They modernized**