TERMS, PEOPLE, AND EVENTS

"new imperialism" Suez Canal Panama Canal

jingoism xenophobia Herbert Spencer

"scramble for Africa" social Darwinism Leopold II

Berlin Conference Fashoda Menelik II

Cecil Rhodes Jameson Raid Boer War

Adowa Afrikaners Great Trek

Opium War Treaty of Nanking treaty ports

spheres of influence extraterritoriality consuls

Boxer Rebellion Sino-Japanese War J.A. Hobson

Three Emperors' League Congress of Berlin Dual Alliance

Triple Alliance Reinsurance Treaty Triple Entente

Swahili Rudyard Kipling Big Five

Suez Canal Panama Canal Alfred Milner

Ferdinand de Lesseps British East India Company Open Door Policy

Treaty of Wichale Lenin

KEY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS

Belgian Congo Congo River Tanzania

Uganda Kenya South China Sea

Algeria Indochina Suez

Afghanistan Singapore Bulgaria

Hawaiian Islands Eritrea Transvaal

Orange Free State Namibia India

Punjab Canton Hong Kong

Burma Maritime Provinces Kowloon

Montenegro Laos Cambodia

Taiwan Korea Yangzi

Austria-Hungary Bosnia Herzegovina

Armenia Japan Malawi

Togo Cameroon Zanzibar

Cape Colony Sea of Japan Mozambique

Liberia Ethiopia Katanga

Bengal Congo Free State Angola

Samoa Zimbabwe Montenegro

Shandung Peninsula Guinea Tanzania

QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER

1. How did industrial development contribute to nineteenth-century imperialism? What other factors influenced the enormous growth of formal and informal empires?

2. Was European imperialism essentially the same in Africa and Asia? How did social structures in Africa and Asia help to shape its course?

3. Why were Europeans driven to create extensive overseas empires?

4. Were the actions of the British South Africa Company in Zimbabwe typical of European colonists in Africa?

5. Was the European alliance system responsible for maintaining peace from 1870 to 1914, for precipitating war, or both? How?

6. Was the European balance of power changed by the establishment of overseas colonies? How did imperialism help to intensify national rivalries?

7. What were some of the consequences of a European-dominated world?