Unit 6 Review Part 1

Match the following terms with the most appropriate descriptions:

• Enlightenment

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

• Imperialism

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

• Social Darwinism

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

• Monroe Doctrine

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

• Nationalism

• 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.

• Economic 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.

• "Scientific" motive

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

• Religious motive

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

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

• Berlin Conference

  (p. 377)

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

• Scramble for Africa

  (p. 377)

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

• Suez Canal

  (p. 376)

• Competing efforts between European imperial powers to colonize Africa

• Corvee laborers

  (p. 376)

• a medicine used to treat the tropical disease malaria

• Quinine

  (p. 376)

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

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.

• Otto von Bismarck

  (p. 377)

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

• Catherine the Great

  (p. 383)

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

• Empress Dowager Cixi

  (p. 380)

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

• Leopold II

  (p. 377-378)

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

• Tupac Amaru II

  (p. 389)

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

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

(Page 379)

• Mali

• Abyssinia

  (modern-day Ethiopia)

• Liberia

• Congo

• Egypt