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Age of European Imperialism
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12/06/2008

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Imperialism
Definition

the political, social, and/or economic domination of an area and its people for the benefit of the dominating people and at the expense of those who are being controlled; the process often involves colonization, or the creation of spheres of influence

During the 1800s-1900s:

The COnquerors: England, France, Belgium, Japan, Netherlands, Germany, United States

The conquered: Asia and Africa

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motives for imperialism
Definition

the three "g"'s : Goods, Glory, and God

industrial demands

ethnocentrism/racism

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Nian Rebellion
Definition

1851-1868

rebellion in Northeast China

reflected increasing poverty and discontent of the Chinese peasantry

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spheres of influence
Definition

areas controlled by foreign merchants

example: China

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Meiji Reforms
Definition
confiscation and redistribution of land, creation of a civil service system open to all, reduction of samurai privileges, creation of a centralized police force open to all, modernization of the military, government investment in industry
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Suez Canal
Definition

constructed 1859-1869 in Egypt

facilitated the building and maintenance of empires by enabling rapid transportation

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The Great Game
Definition
nineteenth-century competition between Great Britain and Russia for the control of central Asia
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Siam
Definition

modern Thailand

preserved its independence largely because colonial officials regarded it as a convenient buffer state between British-dominated Burma and French Indochina

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Omdurman
Definition

The battle fought between Britain and Sudan on the Nile River, 1898

example of the military superiority of Europe

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indentured labor
Definition
labor source for plantations; wealthy planters would pay the laboring poor to sell a portion of their working lives in exchange for passage
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Opium Trade
Definition

Great Britain profited a lot

Trade was illegal, but it continued unabated for decades.

drained large quantities of silver bullion from China, and created serious social problems in southern China

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Grand Canal
Definition

linked the Yangzi and Yellow river valleys in China

1842 (during the Opium Wars), a British armada of ships advanced up the Yangzi River. Resulted in the Chinese government suing for peace.

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zaibatsu
Definition

Japanese term for "wealthy cliques"

usually organized around one family

resulted from the Meiji government selling most of its enterprises to private investors who had close ties to government officials

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Dutch East India Company
Definition
established Cape Town in 1652 on the southern tip of Africa as a supply station for ships en route to Asia
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Cape Colony
Definition

Colony located at the southern tip of Africa and owned by the Dutch East India Company

captured by Britain during the Napoleonic Wars

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Singapore
Definition
Founded in 1824 by Thomas Stamford Raffles, the port of Singapore quickly became the busiest center of trade in the Strait of Melaka.
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"scramble for Africa"
Definition
the European powers' frenzied quest for empire in the African continent
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Boers/Afrikaners
Definition

originally European migrants or former Dutch East Indian Company employees who had settled into lands beyond company control to take up farming and ranching

believed that God had predestined them to claim the people and resources of the Cape

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Monroe Doctrine
Definition
American doctrine issued in 1823 during the presidency of James Monroe that warned Europeans to keep their hands off Latin America.
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Muslim League
Definition

established in 1906 with the encouragement of the British government

dedicated to achieving independence for India

worried that Hindu oppression and continued subjugation of India's substantial Muslim minority might replace British rule.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948), head of the Muslim League, proposed two states, one Hindu, one Muslim.

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British East India Company
Definition

British joint-stock company that grew to be a state within a state in India.

It possessed its own armed forces (a small British army and a large number of Indian troops known as sepoys).

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Qing Dynasty
Definition

Chinese Dynasty (1644-1911)

The Opium War, Unequal Treaties, The Taiping Rebellion, The Self-Strengthening Movement, Spheres of Influence, The Hundred Days Reforms, The Boxer Rebellion

Caught between aggressive foreigners and insurgent rebels, Qing authorities developed reform programs to maintain social order, strengthen the state, and preserve the Qing Dynasty. However, the reforms had limited effect.

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Treaty of Nanjing
Definition

The first of China's unequal treaties, which curtailed China's sovereignty.

1842, Treaty of Nanjing ceded Hong Kong Island in perpetuity to Britain, opened five Chinese ports to commerce and residence, compelled the Qing government to extend most-favored-nation status to Britain, and granted extraterritoriality to British subjects

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The Taiping Rebellion
Definition

Rebellion (1850-1864) in Qing China led by Hong Xiuquan, during which twenty to thirty million were killed.

The rebellion was symbolic of the decline of China during the nineteenth century.

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Meiji Restoration
Definition

Restoration of imperial rule in Japan under Emperor Meiji in 1868 by a coalition led by Fukuzawa Yukichi and Ito Hirobumi; the restoration enacted western reforms to strengthen Japan.

brought an end to the Tokugawa shogunate, centralized political power, disbanded the old social order, revamped the tax system, established a constitutional monarchy with a legislature (the Diet), and remodeled the economy to improve national strength

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Cohong system
Definition

Cohong : specially licensed Chinese firms that were under strict government regulation

In 1759 the Qianlong emperor restricted the European commercial presence in China to the waterfront at Guangzhou. Foreign merchants could only deal with cohongs.

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technology (i.e. Enfield rifles)
Definition

In 1857 sepoy regiments recieved new Enfield rifles that fired bullets from cartridges, which came in paper waxed with animal fat. Both Hindu and Muslim sepoys were offended by the British disregard of their religions.

led to the Sepoy rebellion

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French Indochina
Definition

large southeast Asia colony built between 1859 and 1893.

French colonial officials introduced European-style schools, sought to establish close ties with native elites, and encouraged conversion to Christianity.

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Congo Free State
Definition

colony established in the basin of the Congo River by Henry Morton Stanley

free-trade zone accessible to all European lands

brutal working conditions, high taxes, and abuses resulted in the death of four to eight million Africans

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Khoikhoi and Xhusa
Definition
Competition over land between Cape Colony settlers and the indigenous Khoikhoi and Xhusa peoples led to hostility, resulting in the virtual extinction of the two indigenous peoples.
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Roosevelt Corollary
Definition

In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt (in office 1901-1909) added the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine because of increasing interests in Latin America (Panama Canal).

exerted the U.S. right to intervene in the domestic affairs of nations within the hemisphere if they demonstrated an inability to maintain the security deemed necessary to protect U.S. investments.

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Indian National Congress
Definition

founded in 1885, with British approval, as a forum for educated Indians to communicate their views on public affairs to colonial officials

by the end of the nineteenth century, the congress openly sought Indian self-rule within a larger imperial framework.

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Alexander II
Definition

Tsar of Russia, reigned 1855-1881

led an era of reform: emancipated the serfs, experimented with representative government (zemstvos), and revised the judiciary system

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Hong Xiuquang
Definition
Chinese village schoolteacher who provided both inspiration and leadership for the Taiping rebellion
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Commodore Perry
Definition

American commander who led a U.S. naval squadron into Tokyo Bay in 1853

demanded that the shogun open Japan to diplomatic and commercial relations and sign a treaty of friendship (Treaty of Kanagawa)

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Rudyard Kipling
Definition

1864-1936, English writer and poet

defined the "white man's burden" as the duty of European and Euro-American peoples to bring order and enlightenment to distant lands

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Ito Hirobumi
Definition

1841-1909, Meiji-era traveler

most important journey: 1882-1883, traveled to Europe to study foreign constitutions and administrative systems in preparation for the fashioning of a new Japanese government.

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Emilio Aguinaldo
Definition
led Filipino rebels against American intruders who bought the rights for the Philippine Islands after the Spanish-Cuban-American War
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Herbert Spencer
Definition

English philosopher and social Darwinist(1820-1903)

attempted to apply Darwinian "survival of the fittest" to the social and political realm

saw the elimination of weaker nations as part of a natural process and used the philosophy to justify war

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Sergei Vitte
Definition

Late-nineteenth-century Russian minister of finance who pushed for industrialization

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Empress Dowager
Definition

1835-1908, effective ruler of China during the last fifty years of the Qing Dynasty

negatively affected the Self-Strengthening Movement by corruptly using funds for personal means

supported an antiforeign uprising known as the Boxer rebellion, which failed horribly

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Mizuno Tadakuni
Definition

shogun's chief advisor

between 1841 and 1843, initiated measures to stem growing social and economic decline and to shore up the Tokugawa government

most of his reforms were ineffective, and they provoked strong opposition

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David Livingstone
Definition
Scottish minister who traveled through much of central and southern Africa in the mid-nineteenth century as a missionary
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Lord Lugard
Definition

British colonial administrator (1858-1945) who was the driving force behind the doctrine of indirect rule.

In his book,The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa (1922), he stressed the moral and financial advantages of exercising control over subject populations through indigenous institutions.

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Count Gobineau
Definition

French nobleman and scientific racist(1816-1882) who took race as the most important index of human potential

Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853-1855)

attempted to justify racism by scientific means

considered the European race as the superior race

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Ram Mohan Roy
Definition
A prominent Bengali intellectual sometimes called the "father of modern India" (1772-1833), he argued for the construction of a society based on both modern European science and the Indian tradition of devotional Hinduism.
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Lin Zexu
Definition

known as the incorruptible

In 1839, charged by the Chinese government with the task of destroying some 20,000 chests of opium

his uncompromising policy led to the Opium War

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Tokugawa bakufu
Definition

Japanese government headed by a military shogun

faced both foreign pressures and internal revolts during the mid-eighteenth century

after a brief civil war, the shogun resigned his office

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Cecil Rhodes
Definition
After making his fortune mining diamonds and gold, Rhodes (1853-1902) worked tirelessly on behalf of British imperial expansion to secure and enhance his enterprise.
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King Leopold II
Definition
Belgium ruler (reigned 1865-1909) who employed Henry Morton Stanley for his imperialistic goals in Africa
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Queen Lil'uokalani
Definition
the last monarch of Hawaii (reigned 1891-1893)
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Charles Darwin
Definition

English biologist (1809-1882)

The Origin of Species (1859)

became the inspiration for scientific racists known as social Darwinists

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Crimean War
Definition

1853-1856, war between Russia and a coalition including Britain, France, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman empire

reason for war: Russia's attempt to establish a protectorate over the Ottoman empire threatened to upset the balance of power

clearly revealed the weakness of the Russian empire

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100 Days of reform
Definition

Chinese reforms of 1898 led by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao in their desire to turn China into a modern industrial power

The Empress Dowager nullified all of the reform decrees.

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Sepoy Rebellion
Definition

Outraged by the Enfield rifles' greased cartridges, sepoys mutinied against British rule in India. They were soon joined by peasants and disgruntled elites.

By 1858, the British had crushed the rebellion.

Term
South African War (Anglo-Boer War)
Definition

War between Britian and Afrikaners (1899-1902)

Afrikaners ceded defeat in 1902, and by 1910 the British government reconstitued the four former colonies as provinces in the British-controlled Union of South Africa

Term
Maji-Maji Rebellion
Definition

In Tanganyika, a local prophet organized a large-scale rebellion (1905-1906) to expel German colonial authorities from east Africa.

example of the many rebellions that drew strength from traditional religious beliefs.

Term
Opium Wars
Definition

1839-1842, war between Britain and China over the legality of the opium trade

made plain the military superiority of Europe compare to China

The Treaty of Nanjing

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Boxer Rebellion
Definition

violent antiforeign movement spearheaded by militia units calling themselves the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists

1899, went on a rampage in northern China, were quickly crushed by British, French, U.S., German, and Japanese troops

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Great Trek
Definition
Chafing under British rule, Afrikaners started to leave their farms in Cape Colony and gradually migrated east.
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European migration
Definition

European migrants went mostly to temperate lands, where they worked as free cultivators or industrial laborers.

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Self-strengthening movement
Definition

Chinese attempt (1860-1895) to blend Chinese cultural traditions with European industrial technology.

brought only superficial change

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1911 Revolution
Definition
revolutionary uprisings in China resulted in the abdication of the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty
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Berlin West-Africa Conference
Definition
Meeting organized by German chancellor Otto von Bismarck in 1884-1885 that provided the justification for European colonization of Africa
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Spanish-American War
Definition

War broke out as anticolonial tensions mounted in Cuba and Puerto Rico - the last remnants of Spain's American empire - where U.S. business interests had made large investments. The U.S. claimed sabotage on Spain after the sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine and declared war on Spain (1898-1899).

The U.S. easily defeated Spain and took possession of all of Spain's remaining colonies.

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Sino-Japanese War
Definition

In 1894, Meiji Japan declared war against Qing China over the status of Korea. The Japanese army easily defeated the Chinese.

1895, Qing authorities were forced to accept an unequal treaty with Japan, recognizing Korea's independence and ceding territory to Japan.

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Aborigine
Definition
a member of the dark-skinned people who were the earliest inhabitants of Australia
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mission civilisatrice
Definition

"civilizing mission" : to bring subject peoples "civilization" in the form of political order and social stability

justification for French imperialist expansion into Africa and Asia

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Treaty of Kanagawa
Definition
See Commodore Perry
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