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Why couldn’t Europeans reach the main area of Africa?
Challenging geography, African tribes resisted them, disease,
Steam boat
Made it easier to move around the rivers
Quinine
anti-malaria drug
Maxim Gun
Widely produced machine guns that got rid of the African tribes.
David Livingstone
Traveled to Africa as a missionary; called Africa his home once he stopped writing letters to England
Henry Stanley
Journalist who explored Africa in hopes to find what happened to David Livingstone
“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
First words that Henry Stanley told to David Livingstone
King Leopold II of Belium’s motives
find raw material in Africa, bring them back to Europe to manufacture
Rubber
Popular raw material from Africa that natives were forced to process.
Charles Darwin
came up with darwinism: natural selection; survival of the fittest in nature
Herbert Spencer
took darwin’s idea and applied it to humans: Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism
Nations have certain traits that make them more powerful in society. Other small nations have those traits to make themselves powerful. depended on competition.
Berlin conference
big meeting between 14 European countries about how to divide up Africa
How did these nations evenly split land?
Anyone that wanted land was to let someone know, then just take it.
What were 2 things that Europe liked about Africa
good raw materials and cash crops (mainly rubber)
Zulus
main dominant tribe in South Africa
Shaka
Leader of Zulus
Boers
netherlands farmers
Great Trek
Boers were taken off their land by the british force and into a northern location
Cecil Rhodes
Made a railroad from the cape of Africa to the north fpr transportation.
Which country wanted to take over East Africa?
Germany
Maji Tree
A tree that produced sesame oil
Why did the Maji-Maji rebellion’s start?
the abuse of the Germans + the taxing of sesame oil
Why did the leader from the Maji-Maji rebellion tell his soldiers to drink the potion?
The potion allows the person to be impervious and make the water turn into bullets
Who was trying to take over Ethiopia
Italians
The Adowa War
When the king of Africa, Menelik II, signed a treaty for permission to the Italians to conquer, he got mad because he didn’t understand what the treaty was saying and attacked.
The negatives of Imperialism in Africa
Lots of lives were taken, cultures were taken, resources were stolen, racism was widely spread, they made the borders not thinking of each tribe, diseases were spread(smallpox), unnecessary cash crops were being grown(less actual edible food were able to produce).
Positives if Imperialism in Africa
reduced local warfare(true, but not fair), europeans came in and built schools and hospitals(increased lifespan and literacy rates), economics expanded because of the materials from Africa, lots of railroads, dams, and telegraph lines.
Name of the Indian colonies
The jewel in the crown
Seopys
Indian soldiers that fight for Britain
Common raw material in India
Opium
Opium
from poppy flowers; used as pain relief; was traded to china for tea
Why did Sepoys rebel?
The rifle cartridges were surrounded by pork and beef fat in order to keep it water proof. Hindus and muslims disliked this because it goes against their religion.
Guangzhou
Main port for trading in China
WHat was china interested in trading?
Opium
Why was opium banned?
Them brits exploited and used it for some darn drugs
Opium war
Began because Queen Victoria did not agree to ban opium in England; fought mostly in water
Who won the opium war? Why?
British easily won because of their modern steamboats, compared to China’s wooden ones. They got Hong Kong
Taiping Rebellion
an attempt to make sure everyone was equal and get rid of poverty, not a long term success.
Self-Strengthening movement
In China, they didn’t rely on any other counties to improve itself
Sphere of Influence
when a foreign nation dominates trade and economic investment
Open Door Policy
anyone can trade in with china; the US came up with this idea because they wanted to trade there
What did the Open Door Policy do to China
freed them from colonization, but at the same time they weren’t free from foreign influence
Boxer Rebellion
People were angry about too much foreign influence and the empress Cixi😡, so they try fighting back
Which country did China attempt to “copy”
Japan
Matthew Perry
Commodore who sails to japan to let their leader that President Millard wanted to open trading ports there.
Mitsuhito
changed Japan by industrializing it after it was seen as an “non prideful” country
Sino-Japanese War
Japan vs. China; they fight to see who has more control/influence over Korea;
What plantation in Cuba was perfect to grow due to its climate?
Sugar Cane
Jose Marti
An immigrant from Cuba that went to NYC to spread the idea of independent Cuba
Who was William Randolph Hearst and
Joseph Pulitzer
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