Deck 21: The High Tide of Imperialism

Question 1

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Japan,Thailand,Afghanistan,Persia,and Ethiopia

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

What strategies did African and Asian peoples employ to cope with or resist European imperialism? To what degree were they successful?

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

How did nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europeans justify their imperialism?

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

"On balance,Western imperialism benefited the colonial peoples." Discuss,pro and con.

Question 5

Discuss some of the non-economic motives for Western imperialism.In your opinion,were the economic or non-economic motives of primary importance,and why?

Question 6

Describe the institutionalization of European colonialism in terms of its philosophical underpinnings and the actual practices and policies that its practitioners employed.

Question 7

"The Sepoy Rebellion was the major turning point in modern Indian history." Discuss,pro and con.

Question 8

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direct v.indirect rule

Question 9

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Cecil Rhodes

Question 10

"The Boer War was a precursor and a paradigm of later twentieth century wars." Discuss,pro and con.

Question 11

What caused the renewal of European imperialism in the late-nineteenth century? What were the dominant influences at work? Did they change over time and/or with relation to the actions of other imperialistic societies?

Question 12

"Western imperialism was an inevitable consequence of the West's Scientific and Industrial Revolutions." Discuss,pro and con.

Question 13

Compare and contrast eighteenth century colonialism with late nineteenth century imperialism.What are the differences,if any,and why?

Question 14

How,and why,did the policies of European imperialists in West Africa and Southeast Asia differ? To what degree did economic motives explain these differences,and why?

Question 15

What does the text mean when it says,"modern nationalism,then,was a product of colonialism and,in a sense,a reaction to it"?

Question 16

Was Western imperialism an inevitable result of the advance of the Industrial Revolution? Why or why not?

Question 17

Compare and contrast British and French imperialism as to governing philosophies,impact upon the colonial populations,and imperial successes,however measured.

Question 18

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imperialism

Question 19

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"might makes right"

Question 20

Compare and contrast the strategies of European colonialism and neo-colonialism.

Question 21

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the Mahdi and Charles "Chinese" Gordon

Question 22

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nuoc mam

Question 23

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Sierra Leone,Senegal,and the Gold Coast

Question 24

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Zanzibar and the slave trade

Question 25

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slave trade vs."legitimate trade"

Question 26

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association v.assimilation

Question 27

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thugee

Question 28

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Emilio Aguinaldo

Question 29

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David Livingstone

Question 30

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Liberia

Question 31

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Commodore George Dewey

Question 32

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Thailand's King Mongkut and King Chulalongkorn

Question 33

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Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden

Question 34

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Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal

Question 35

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

Question 36

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Indo-Chinese Union

Question 37

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Egypt's Muhammad Ali,the pasha/khedive

Question 38

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the "raj"

Question 39

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"modernizing elite"

Question 40

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zamindar system

Question 41

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Orange Free State and South African Republic/Transvaal

Question 42

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the Great Trek

Question 43

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Fashoda

Question 44

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Kenya's central highlands

Question 45

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the "scramble for Africa"

Question 46

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social Darwinism

Question 47

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the "three Cs"

Question 48

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Boers/Afrikaners

Question 49

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"missionary factor"

Question 50

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Cape Colony

Question 51

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"shanghaied"

Question 52

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Basutoland,Bechuanaland,and Swaziland

Question 53

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matrilineal

Question 54

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Boer War

Question 55

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King Leopold II of Belgium

Question 56

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Union of South Africa

Question 57

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Shaka and the Zulus

Question 58

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the VOC

Question 59

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Berlin Conference,1884

Question 60

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"white man's burden"

Question 61

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Resistance Strategies

Question 62

The individual who left a massive estate to create a worldwide British Empire to "civilize" the world

A)Albert Sarraut.
B)Cecil Rhodes.
C)Muhammad Ali Jinna.
D)David Livingstone.
E)Paul Kruger.

Question 63

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Neocolonialism

Question 64

The term 'neocolonialism' refers to European colonial tactics

A)after the 16^th century.
B)in all parts of the world except Africa.
C)after the abolition of the slave trade.
D)in Africa only.
E)after former European colonies were replaced by independent nation-states.

Question 65

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Sepoy Rebellion

Question 66

"New" products that European nations sought to obtain from colonies in Africa and Asia in the nineteenth century included

A)gold and silver.
B)cloves and pepper.
C)oil,tin and rubber.
D)tea,silk,and porcelain.
E)ivory and rayon.

Question 67

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Enfield rifles

Question 68

What was the general idea of Thomas Babington Macaulay's educational policy for Britain's Indian subjects?

A)We should produce a class that is Indian in blood and color but English in taste and intellect.
B)If you lift up the poor,they become better manual laborers.
C)Do not try to educate poor Indians,for it is an impossible task.
D)Education beyond the basics will serve to incite rebellion.
E)We need English-educated Indian soldiers to help us fight insurrection in Africa.

Question 69

Within the context of Western economic expansion into the regions of Africa and Asia during the nineteenth century,the term imperialism means the forceful appropriation of all except

A)people to buy manufactured goods.
B)low-priced raw materials with which to manufacture goods.
C)advantageous opportunities in which to make highly profitable financial investments.
D)a substitution of African and Asia cultural norms in place of traditional European culture.
E)areas for investments in European-based construction companies.

Question 70

A rising non-western nation that avoided colonial subjugation by pursuing a concerted strategy of political and economic reform was

A)Liberia.
B)Ethiopia.
C)Afghanistan.
D)Japan.
E)Persia.

Question 71

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Tippi Sultan

Question 72

Thailand

A)was the only country in southwest Asia to avoid a takeover by the German Empire.
B)was the only predominantly Christian country in its region.
C)was able to remain independent because France and Britain preferred that it remain so in order to serve as a buffer between their colonial territories.
D)had its province of Burma seized by the British in 1894.
E)was occupied for a long period of time by Britain,much to France's disgust and anger.

Question 73

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clitoridectomy

Question 74

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'Old' and 'New' Imperialism

Question 75

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Ram Mohan Roy's Brahmo Samaj

Question 76

The individual who said that "My ruling purpose is the extension of the British empire throughout the world" was

A)Queen Victoria.
B)General Gordon
C)David Livingstone.
D)Cecil Rhodes
E)Rudyard Kipling.

Question 77

Remote location and mountainous terrain spared which of the following from colonial rule?

A)Ethiopia.
B)Afghanistan.
C)Japan.
D)Kenya.
E)both a and b

Question 78

In the nineteenth century,European nations exploited areas of Asia and Africa for the following except

A)raw materials,which could be used in European factories.
B)markets these regions provided for European manufactured goods.
C)opportunities such exploitation presented for European cultural expansion.
D)manufactured goods to be sent from Asia to Europe.
E)possible fields for missionary activities.

Question 79

In the nineteenth century,imperialism

A)motivated Russia to seize Afghanistan and Burma in the 1860s.
B)was motivated by a desire to control markets as well as raw materials.
C)was denounced by all major European powers until 1874.
D)was notable for Britain's advocacy of its practice of assimilation.
E)was confined,in practice,to East Asia and western South America.

Question 80

In his famous poem "The White Man's Burden," Rudyard Kipling expressed the idea that whites

A)greatly suffered from the cruelty of African native tribes when they were captured.
B)were never really recompensed for the loss of their colonies after the end of colonialism.
C)were more susceptible to native African diseases and therefore experienced greater mortality.
D)carried the economic cost of infrastructure development in their former colonies.
E)had a moral responsibility to lift Africans from a state of lower societal development.