STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER 25:

 

EUROPE AND THE WORLD, 1870-1914

 

 

 

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?