AP Euro: Unit 14.3.2 - Modernity and Imperialism

Rom Mohun Roy

________ considered the father of Indian nationalism: Learn from the west, but ultimately celebrate Indias traditions and someday make a nation of our own.

rivalry, supplies, tax

BEIC's plan: Stir up previously existing _____ and tensions between culture groups in India and get them to fight each other. Sell _____ to both sides. Make money. Once both groups are weakened enough, the BEIC army comes in and takes over. Now can ___ the region and make money

Korea

________ was already a tributary state of China, and as Japan made more demands, China became angrier.

nationalist

Anti Japanese resentment fostered ______ movements in both Korea and Manchuria, but both were crushed.

Zaibatsu

Government sets up factories, sells them to wealthy families to further develop them (Kawasaki, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan) known as _____.

Britain

________ gained the port of Hong Kong- (2000 !)

Women

________ had a secondary role in Japanese society.

Sepoys

The _____ were really unhappy; FORCED into military service, serving overseas (even just traveling) was an offense to their native religion, could be forced to attack other Indians, and forced to use cartridges (bullets) coated in cow (sacred to Hindus) and pig (forbidden to Muslims) fat.

British East India Company

______ is a corporation (its goal is to make money) that also has its own personal army.

Enlightenment

Educational system put in place by westerners actually weakened their hold as Indians read the ideas of the _______ and seek to apply them to India

India

________ becomes a colony under the rule of the British monarchs (not BEIC)

elites

New western ideas were largely rejected by the Chinese ______

China

What was also a torn country in terms of what it wanted? Answer with a single words or term.

self-sufficient

In the mind of the Chinese emperor, they didn't need to trade with the outside world because they were already _____.

opium

The only resource that England had to sell that helped balance their trade deficit was a plant based drug called ____ which grew in India. Eventually sales of the drug tip the Chinese into trade deficit and the British into surplus. Chinese authorities outlaw the drug and executed Chinese dealers.

Taiping Rebellion

The Second Opium War was fought during a Chinese civil War (______) which claimed the lives of between 20 and 30 million Chinese. This made it easier for western powers to dominate China.

Europe

________: Trade Deficit.

Boxer Uprising

Sick of outside interference in China, the people again rose up and rebelled in what became known as the _____. A multi-national force of the US, Europeans, and Japan all came together to crush the rebellion.