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The British Empire
Various terms and ideas related to the British Empire for 8th Grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The phrase "The sun never set on the British Empire." refers to what situation? | The empire was so widespread that at any given time, the sun was always shining on a part of the British empire. |
| India is both a country and a ______. | Subcontinent |
| The Ring of Fire is ______. | Surrounds the Pacific Ocean and is an area where earthquakes and volcanoes are common |
| Winds that blow across East Asia at certain times of the year are called ________. | Monsoons |
| An Indian leader that helped India become independent and also demonstrated peaceful protest methods was ____. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| A mountain that is 29,028 feet tall, located in the Himalayan Range, is _____ | Mount Everest |
| The caste system has been in India | For over 1,000 years |
| The caste system is | A a class system |
| Hindu Kush is | A mountain range in India |
| India has a population of over____. | 1 billion people |
| Major religion in India | Hinduism |
| Untouchables refers to | The lowest members of the caste system |
| Sepoy Rebellion | Mutiny of Indian troops stationed near Delhi |
| Results of the Sepoy Rebellion | Changes in attitudes, year long insurrection, dissolution of British East India Company, Beginning of British Raj |
| Ireland's Independence | 1921 - Ireland finally becomes the republic of Ireland |
| Mohandas Gandhi | Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi |
| Attributes of Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi | London trained lawyer, Hindu, worked in South Africa for Indian rights, developed Satyagraha (Truth Force), etc |
| Satyagraha | Truth Force |
| Salt March | 1930 - prices very high, purchase only allowed through British vendor, led to a 250 miles march to Dandi |
| World War II | India supported the Allies |
| Indian Independence | 1947 - Great Britain offered independence almost 100 years after Sepoy Rebellion |
| Britain had established a presence at which locations before the Scramble for Africa began? | The Gambia, Lagos, The Gold Coast, Cape Colony, Natal, and the Transvaal |
| Prior to the Scramble for Africa France had settlements | Dakar and St Louis in Senegal, Senegal River, regions of Cote d'Ivoire, a protectorate over the coastal region of Dahomey (now Benin), |
| Prior to the Scramble for Africa, Portugal had arrived in | Angola, Mozambique |
| Areas controlled by the Ottoman Turks prior to the Scramble for Africa | Libya, Tunisia, Egypt |
| Reasons that led to The Scramble for Africa | End of the slave trade, exploration, Henry Morton Stanley, capitalism, steam engines and iron hulled boats, medical advances, politics, military innovation |
| Two countries that remained free of European control | Ethiopia, Liberia |
| Geopolitical reasons for the collapse of The British Empire | Japanese power in the Pacific, German power in Europe, U.S. power in the Western Hemisphere, increasing obligation to colonies following WWI |
| Warfare in Ireland | 1100s - 1600s |
| Treaty of Utrecht | Nova Scotia, Newfoundland; a monopoly on the slave trade in Spanish America, all of French Canada, East India Company pushed France out of India |
| Boer War | 189-1902 in Africa |
| Opium Wars | 1841- 1842 in China |
| World War I | 1914 - 1918 |
| World War II | 1939 - 1941 |
| This feature was one of the main reasons that the British Empire was able to become so expansive | Most powerful navy |
| After WWII the United States refused to | Support British colonization |
| Great Britain attempted to join the European Common Market | Vetoed by member nations, finally admitted in 1973 |
| 1950s | Egypt, Kenya, Cyprus, and others sought independence |
| 1997 | Last British troops left Hong Kong |
| Mercantilism | Economic policy that required nations to colonize weaker nations to obtain natural resources |
| Global expansion | Trade routes needed to be protected East India Company –monopoly on trade with India |
| 12/31/1600 | British government gave the East India Company permission to control all trade between Britain and India |
| 1784 | British Parliament forced the government to shut the East India Company and rule India because of atrocities that had occurred |
| Atrocities attributed to British East India Company | Land tax, landless/illiterate/ill fed Indians, more cash crops grown rather then food crops |
| Strategic colonization | An attempt to protect India from other power seekers |
| 4,600 miles | The distance one could travel on continental Africa, yet still remain in the British Empire |
| Suez Canal | Made a shortcut for trade |
| Colonies | Equaled profit |
| Imperialistic countries | Germany, Portugal, Spain, France, etc... |
| Missionaries | Sent to colonies in an attempt to convert people to the religion of the "Mother Country" |
| Mother Country | European country which exerted varying degrees of control over weaker countries elsewhere in the world |
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