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Imperialism Qs

Midyear Prep

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1. How did Napoleon’s conquest of Europe lead to 3 new political philosophies and rampant nationalism? (Hint: Look at the graphic organizer you completed about the Congress of Vienna.)
2a. How did the Industrial Revolution drive many Europeans and Americans to engage in imperialism and subjugate much of the rest of humanity?
2b. How and why did many Europeans and Americans justify global imperialism in the 19th and early 20th centuries?
3a. How did imperial governments control their colonial subjects and why did different countries choose different methods of governance?
3b. Why did imperial governments and officials often use violence against the people they colonized? {control, profit from forced labor, feelings of racial and moral superiority}
4. How did people in colonies resist imperial governments? (Hint: Think about the readings you did as a group.)
5a. What were the most important raw materials and strategic benefits European nations gained by colonizing Africa? Due to cheap labour of Africans, Europeans easily acquired products like oil, ivory, rubber, palm oil, wood, cotton and gum.
5b. How did European divisions of Africa lead to long-lasting problems between groups of Africans?
6a. What were the most important raw materials and strategic benefits European nations and the United States gained by colonizing China?
6b. How did European and American businesses, religious missionaries, and ordinary citizens of those countries lead to instability and the eventual end of dynastic rule in China?
7a. What were the most important raw materials and strategic benefits European nations gained by colonizing India?
7b. Compare and contrast the benefits and damages Britain’s presence in “the British raj” did to the people who lived there? {This is really more of a philosophical question for you right now.}
8a. What were the most important raw materials and strategic benefits European nations gained by colonizing the Islamic world?
8b. Why was Egypt, in particular, so important to European and American governments?
9. What were the most important raw materials and strategic benefits European nations gained by colonizing what was then called French Indochina or the Dutch East Indies?
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