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- Powerpoint presentation
- V.I. Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
- “The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling
- The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham
- The Great Boer War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James
- The Opium Wars by Travis Hanes and Frank Sanello
Imperialism – Quiz
- Identify three different factors that made European imperialism on its 19th-century scale possible.
- Identify three different motivations for European imperialism.
- Explain how the Berlin Conference of 1884 led to the “Scramble for Africa.”
- Explain the significance of the Tanzimat movement.
- Identify the event that led to the British government’s removing India from the authority of the East India Company.
- Explain the circumstances that led to the outbreak of the First Opium War.
- Identify at least three overall outcomes of European imperialism.
- transportation and communication infrastructure, medical advances, military technological superiority
- economic gain, geopolitical advantage, prestige
- Ground rules requiring a “substantial presence” of a colonial power in an area for other states to accept its claim were adopted.
- It represented an attempt by the Ottoman Empire to modernize and protect itself from European encroachment.
- Sepoy Mutiny of 1857
- Chinese authorities arrested British merchants and forced them to surrender large quantities of opium held in ships off the Chinese coast. The British government demanded compensation for the merchants, and the Chinese refused.
- Increase in the worldwide division of labor, increase in foreign trade, large-scale Christian evangelism in colonized areas, increase in overall standards of living, destruction of some traditional cultures