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Jeopardy 31
Asia and Imperialism
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10th Grade
04/03/2007

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People who were barred from important British positions
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Indians
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The two rival religious groups
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Hindus and Muslims
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The Empress of India
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Queen Victoria
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How the British saw themselves as compared with Indians
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superior
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The British policy of divide and rule worked well because India had so many of these.
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states (or native princes)
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Ruling British government official of India
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the viceroy
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European country with a near-monopoly on Indian trade in the 1500s
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Portugal
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Trading company that controlled most of India
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the British East India Company
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Small jail cell where British prisoners died overnight
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the Black Hole of Calcutta
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Important state, site of Calcutta, conquered by the British
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Bengal
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Two major factors that prevented Indian unity
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the caste system and religious differences
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The minority religious group in India
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the Muslims
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This encouraged Indian ideas about nationalism, democracy, and socialism.
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British education
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Parliament transferred rule of India to this entity in 1858.
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the British Crown (or government)
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Reformer and scholar often called the founder of Indian nationalism.
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Ram Mohun Roy
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Group formed to protect the interests of its religious follwers
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the Muslim League
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Military officer who expanded British control
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Robert Clive
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Native Indian troops
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sepoys
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Mutiny (revolt) of the native troops in 1857
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the Sepoy Rebellion
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Group that favored Indian self-rule
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the Indian National Congress
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Important French trading base on India's southeast coast taken by the British in 1761
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Pondicherry
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Important British trading base on India's southeast coast
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Madras
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Peninsula east of India and south of China
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Indochina (or Southeast Asia)
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Large Asian countries that strongly influenced southeast Asia
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India and China
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What the first European traders came looking for
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spices
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Two beverage products Southeast Asia became an important source of
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coffee and tea
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Asian nation that once dominated eastern Southeast Asia
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China
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System of native work in the Dutch colony
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forced labor
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Ocean to the southwest of Southeast Asia
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the Indian Ocean
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Early European traders along the Southeast Asian coast
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the Portuguese and the Dutch
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Country that took control of Burma
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Great Britain
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Island at the southern tip of the Southeast Asian peninsula
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Singapore
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The only independent state (a kingdom) of Southeast Asia
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Siam
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Today's name for Siam
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Thailand
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European nation that took control of eastern Southeast Asia
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France
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Term for the French-controlled nations of Southeast Asia
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French Indochina
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Trading company that governed the Netherlands' island possessions
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the Dutch East India Company
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The Dutch colony of Southeast Asia
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the Dutch (Netherlands) East Indies
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Kingdom on the eastern border of India
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Burma
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Peninsula that jutted out at the southern end of Southeast Asia
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the Malay Peninsula
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Britain controlled the northern part of this large island.
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Borneo
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Britain controlled the southeastern part of this large island.
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New Guinea
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Sea that bordered Southeast Asia on the east
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the South China Sea
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The major islands of the Dutch colony (6)
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Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Timor, New Guinea
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Basic foreign policy of the ruling dynasty
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isolation
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Drug that the British introduced to China
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opium
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Manchu capital
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Peking
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China's giant neighbor to the north
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Russia
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Type of government established in China by the revolution of 1912
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a republic
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Ruling dynasty from 1644 until 1911
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the Manchu dynasty
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War that opened China to increased British rule
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the Opium War
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Island granted to the British in 1842
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Hong Kong
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Peninsular country east of China
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Korea
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Nation that defeated China in a war of 1894-95
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Japan
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Northern area Russia wanted control of
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Manchuria
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U.S. backed policy of giving all nations equal trading rights in China
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the Open Door Policy
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Movement to drive all foreigners out of China
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the Boxer Rebellion
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Leader of the revolution against the Manchus
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Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen)
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Chinese term for treaties China was forced to sign
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"unequal treaties"
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Rebellion that weakened the Manchus
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the Taiping Rebellion
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Russian naval base near Manchuria
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Vladivostok
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Dowager empress who blocked most modernization reforms
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Cixi
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The young emperor Guang Xu launched a hundred days of this.
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reform
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The Nationalist People's Party
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Kuomintang
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Sea between China and Korea
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the Yellow Sea
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Foreign policy of Japan before imperialism
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isolation
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Japan refused to help these people in distress.
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shipwrecked sailors
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Purpose of the first European treaties with Japan
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to open up trade
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Japan developed a surplus of this as it industrialized.
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population
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Japan had to import these important items.
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raw materials and food
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All Japanese became literate because of this.
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universal public education
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U.S. naval officer who arranged for a treaty
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Commodore Matthew Perry
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Japan's response to Western conflict
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industrialization and/or modernization
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Japan's form of government after 1889
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constitutional (but absolute) monarchy
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Countries that Japan fought for control of Korea
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China and Russia
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Excellent harbor taken from China by Russia, then Japan
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Lüshun (Port Arthur)
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Island colony acquired by Japan from China in 1894
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Taiwan
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Man who arranged the peace between Russia and Japan
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Japan and Russia divided this area into two spheres of influence
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Manchuria
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Japan annexed this country in 1910, renaming it Chosen.
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Korea
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Only Japanese port open to foreign trade until the mid-1800s
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Nagasaki
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The reign of "enlightened rule"
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Meiji (or the Meiji Era)
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Emperor who established the reign of "enlightened rule"
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Mutsuhito
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Peninsula on Manchuria's southern coast fought over by China, Russia, and Japan
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the Liaotung Peninsula
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Treaty ending the Russo-Japanese war was signed here.
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