Unit 6 Review Part 1

Match the following terms with the most appropriate descriptions:

• Imperialism

• The United States will not allow European imperial powers to expand their empires in the western hemisphere

• Nationalism

• A central authority controls a vast and diverse territory filled with many different peoples and cultures

• Enlightenment

• "Survival of the fittest" applied to societies; superior races and cultures deserve power over inferior races or cultures

• Social Darwinism

• Reason, individual rights, and evidence should count for more than tradition or community principles

• Monroe Doctrine

• People who share a common language, culture, and history should have their own nation-state

For most of recorded human history, empires have risen and fallen. Empires continued to rise and fall in the period c. 1750 - 1900. However, at this time, empires faced a significant challenge from another rising ideology. Which of the following presented the most significant challenge to imperialism c. 1750 - 1900?

• Nationalism

• Imperialism

• Enlightenment

• Social Darwinism

• Monroe Doctrine

The new and rising empire of Japan took control of all of the following areas except:

• Formosa (Taiwan)

• Korea

• Northeast China

• Philippines

Based on the map, which TWO of the following terms would best describe the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century?

• Contiguous

• Maritime

• Rising

• Falling

• Non-contiguous

Based on the map, which THREE of the following terms would best describe the British Empire in the late 19th century?

• Contiguous

• Maritime

• Rising

• Falling

• Non-contiguous

Match the following imperialist activities with the appropriate motive for imperialism. (6.1)

• Nationalist motive

• After the Wars of Unification brought the new nation of Germany into existence, German leaders felt that Germany deserved the prestige of being an empire.

• "Scientific" motive

• Phrenology was the study of skull size and shape. Phrenologists wrongly believed this could be used to determine intelligence.

• Economic motive

• Missionaries often combined efforts at religious conversion with humanitarian efforts, such as David Livingstone's work to end the slave trade.

• Religious motive

• The English monarch granted the English East India Company a monopoly on trade with India. The company traded cotton, indigo, spices, slaves, and opium.

Match the following terms with the appropriate description. (6.2)

• Suez Canal

  (p. 376)

• A meeting of European powers to provide for the orderly colonization of Africa. Created many artificial border lines throughout Africa.

• Corvee laborers

  (p. 376)

• a medicine used to treat the tropical disease malaria

• Scramble for Africa

  (p. 377)

• Competing efforts between European imperial powers to colonize Africa

• Berlin Conference

  (p. 377)

• Unpaid laborers who were forced to work on projects as a form of taxation

• Quinine

  (p. 376)

• The main project completed by the corvee laborers: a 100-mile-long canal that provided a shortcut for ships traveling to Asia

The corvee laborers (page 376) were unpaid laborers who were forced to work on projects as a form of taxation.

This system of labor can best be compared to the:

• M'ita system of the Incan Empire

  (page 37)

• Chattel slavery of the Americas

  (page 218)

• Devshirme of the Ottoman Empire

  (page 158)

• Blood tax of the Aztec Empire

  (pages 36-37)

Please match each world leader with the appropriate description.

• Leopold II

  (p. 377-378)

• Created Germany through the wars of Unification and hosted the Berlin Conference

• Catherine the Great

  (p. 383)

• Belgian King who brutally exploited his colony in the Congo Free State to enrich himself

• Otto von Bismarck

  (p. 377)

• Expanded the Russian Empire in all directions by annexing parts of Poland and the Ottoman Empire

• Tupac Amaru II

  (p. 389)

• Took control of China away from her nephew, stopped efforts at reform, and encouraged the Boxer Rebellion

• Empress Dowager Cixi

  (p. 380)

• Descendant of the last Inca ruler; staged a failed rebellion against the Spanish rulers of Peru

The TWO states in Africa which remained independent after the Scramble for Africa were:

(Page 379)

• Mali

• Abyssinia

  (modern-day Ethiopia)

• Liberia

• Congo

• Egypt