Imperialism

Social Darwinism

Idea that certain people become more powerful because they are initially better “survival of the fittest”

Industrial Rev. significance on imperialism

Created the need for Europe’s expansion and the power to successfully take and profitably maintain colonies overseas

Imperialism

Domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region

Benefits of British rule

• Brought peace

• Revised the legal system

• Were trained in civil service and military

• School benefits

Rowlatt Act

(In 1919) Allowed political issues to be used without juries and permitted jailing of suspects without trial

Khilafat Movement

A political campaign launched in British India over British policy

King Leopold

• Explored riches of Congo

• Brutalized villagers in Congo

• Mutilated laborers and forced them to work for nothing

• Owned Congo privately

• International outrage forced him to turn every colony becoming Belgian Congo

Genocide

Deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group

Wahhabi Movement

Rejected schools of theology and law-ottoman empire

Gandhi

He was an Indian lawyer who led his country to freedom from British colonial rule in 1974

Sati

One of the wives of the God Shiva and a daughter of the sage Daksa

Swaraj

Self-rule

Satyagraha

Holding firmly to truth

Menelik

• The reforming ruler of Ethiopia

• Tried modernizing his country

• Italians tried to take over