AP EURO – THE WEST AND THE WORLD – IMPERIALISM – 26
AP EURO – THE WEST AND THE WORLD – IMPERIALISM – 26
CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHAPTER BY ANSWERING THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
01. How large was the income gap between industrializing and non-industrializing regions? What
was the cause of this gap?
02. What factors speeded up international trade in the late 19th century? Where did most of the
foreign investments in this period go?
03. What were the motives of both the British merchants and the Chinese government in the opium
Wars of 1839-1842 and 1856-1860?
04. What were some of the differences in migration patterns among the various European states?
Why was migration from Italy so heavy?
05. Where did European migrants go? Why did the migrants leave? Why did so many return?
06. Explain the British-Egyptian conflict of 1882. What were the causes and results?
07. What distinguished the “new imperialism” from earlier forms of European expansion?
08. Why was Leopold II of Belgium interested in Africa?
09. What was meant by “effective occupation”? Did it cause or curtail further imperialism?
10. In 1898, a British army faced a French army at Fashoda in north-central Africa. Why?
11. What impact did Christianity have on imperialism?
12. What was the purpose of the Great Rebellion in India in 1857-58?
13. What were the advantages and disadvantages of British rule for the Indians?
14. What was the Meiji Restoration in Japan? Why was it a turning point in Japanese history?
15. How well did the Japanese copy the Europeans? What European ideas were most attractive to them?
16. Does the Chinese Qing Dynasty in the period 1860-1912 represent a traditionalist or modernist response to Europe and imperialism?
DEFINE THE FOLLOWING KEY CONCEPTS AND TERMS:
“new imperialism”, traditionalist response to imperialism, modernist response to imperialism, Social
Darwinism, racism, “the white man’s burden”
IDENTIFY AND EXPLAIN THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE AND
TERMS:
Qing Dynasty, Pale of Settlement, Egyptian Nationalist Party, Suez Canal, Omdurman, British opium trade,
Leopold II, Matthew Perry, Boers, Dowager Empress Cixi John Hobson, Heinrich von Treitschke
EXPLAIN WHAT THE FOLLOWING EVENTS WERE, WHO PARTICIPATED IN THEM, AND
WHY THEY WERE IMPORTANT:
Japanese “opening” of Korea in 1876, Berlin Conference of 1884-85, Fashoda Crisis of 1898, Great Trek of
the Boers, Treaty of Nanking, 1842, Meiji Restoration of 1867, Sino-Japanese War, 1894-95
TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THIS CHAPTER BY PROVIDING THE CORRECT
ANSWERS:
01. He took the Sudan for the British with his victory at Omdurman, __________________________
02. His attempt to modernize Egypt resulted in bankruptcy and foreign intervention.______________
03. He was a journalist, explorer, and employee of Leopold III._______________________________
04. He was a British paternalist reformer in Egypt._________________________________________
05. He argued that the strongest nations tend to be the best.__________________________________
06. He “opened” Japan to the West in 1853.______________________________________________
07. He was a Chinese revolutionary and republican.________________________________________
08. Under her leadership China was able to strengthen itself and maintain its traditional culture._____
ESSAY:
Was Western imperialism “pure selfishness” and the product of unregulated capitalism, as its critics
claimed? Or was it a means by which the non-Western world was able to undergo beneficial change.
Provide evidence to back up your argument.
................
................
In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.
To fulfill the demand for quickly locating and searching documents.
It is intelligent file search solution for home and business.