STUDY GUIDE FOR CHAPTER 25:
EUROPE AND THE WORLD, 1870-1914
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"new imperialism" |
Suez Canal |
Panama
Canal |
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jingoism |
xenophobia |
Herbert
Spencer |
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"scramble for Africa" |
social Darwinism |
Leopold II |
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Berlin Conference |
Fashoda |
Menelik II |
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Cecil Rhodes |
Jameson Raid |
Boer War |
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Adowa |
Afrikaners |
Great Trek |
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Opium War |
Treaty of Nanking |
treaty ports |
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spheres of influence |
extraterritoriality |
consuls |
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Boxer Rebellion |
Sino-Japanese War |
J.A. Hobson |
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Three Emperors' League |
Congress of Berlin |
Dual Alliance |
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Triple Alliance |
Reinsurance Treaty |
Triple Entente |
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Swahili |
Rudyard Kipling |
Big Five |
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Suez
Canal |
Panama
Canal |
Alfred Milner |
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Ferdinand de Lesseps |
British East India Company |
Open Door Policy |
|
Treaty of Wichale |
Lenin |
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KEY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS
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Belgian Congo |
Congo River |
Tanzania |
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Uganda |
Kenya |
South China Sea |
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Algeria |
Indochina |
Suez |
Afghanistan |
Singapore |
Bulgaria |
|
Hawaiian Islands |
Eritrea |
Transvaal |
|
Orange Free State |
Namibia |
India |
|
Punjab |
Canton |
Hong
Kong |
|
Burma |
Maritime
Provinces |
Kowloon |
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Montenegro |
Laos |
Cambodia |
|
Taiwan |
Korea |
Yangzi |
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Austria-Hungary |
Bosnia |
Herzegovina |
Armenia
|
Japan |
Malawi |
|
Togo |
Cameroon |
Zanzibar |
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Cape Colony |
Sea of Japan |
Mozambique |
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Liberia |
Ethiopia |
Katanga |
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Bengal |
Congo Free State |
Angola |
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Samoa |
Zimbabwe |
Montenegro |
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Shandung Peninsula |
Guinea |
Tanzania |
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?