Unit+6+Height+of+Imperialism


===** #1 Do you think there are any good reasons for one country to take control of another country? If so, under what circumstances do you think it would be justified? If not, why not? For raw materials, militaristic strategy, or marketing purposes. I don't think there's any real way to justify taking someone's land for your own reasons, it just is. Negotiating to take what you want is a solution, albeit highly(hiiiighly) improbably. **=== ===** #2 Indicate which Western power (France, Great Britain, Holland, or the United States,) controlled each of the following countries in Southeast Asia at the end of the nine- teenth century. (If a country remained free of colonial rule, write “none.”) //NO LIST OF COUNTRIES FOLLOWED// **===

===** #3 How was the “New Imperialism ” different from earlier expansion by European nations? **=== It's described basically as "empire for empire's sake".

===** #4 How was Thailand able to remain free of colonial rule? **=== Good leadership and government reforms.

===** #5 How are direct and indirect rule different? Why was indirect rule not always used? **=== With direct rule, a power from the ruling country has power in the colony. In indirect rule, some of the local power structure is kept in tact while still under rule of another country.

===** #6 What new form of resistance to colonial rule began to emerge at the beginning of the twentieth century? **=== Decolonization, where removing colonial power in other nations began to reinforced by major world powers post WWII.

===** #7 Has anyone ever told you that your traditions and customs were wrong? How would this make you feel? **=== No, not really. Since I'm white and so is basically everyone else. Even so, I practice some Japanese customs here and there; I don't ever get negative feedback for it. If someone did, I'd probably take it fairly personally, and be pretty sore; maybe to the point of lashing back.

===** #8 List which European nations had claims in the following parts of Africa by 1914. West Africa, North Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, South Africa West: France, Spain North: Italy, Great Britain Central: Spain, Portugal, Germany East: Great Britain, Italy South: Great Britain, Germany, Portugal, France **===

===** #9 What forms of trade replaced the slave trade in West Africa ? **=== The 'Colonial Trade'.(unsure, might want to go back and re-research)

===** #10 Why was Egypt important to Europeans in the nineteenth century? **=== Cotton and other resources related to production.

===** #11 How did Europeans become interested in Central Africa ? **=== Lots of cash crops and production resources were available. One of the more notable cash crops were coffee.

===** #12 What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference ? **=== To regulate European colonization and trade within Africa circa 1884.

** #13 Who were the Boers ? **
The descendants of of the proto Afrikaans-speaking(?) pastorialists of the eastern Cape frontier.

===** #14 What were the good and bad features of indirect rule ? **=== It was cheaper and easier, but it provided an instable and often unfavorable ruling power to the people of the colony.

**#15 How did the new class of educated Africans feel about Western civilization and colonial rule?** UNK.

===** #16 Have you ever read any stories or poems by the British writer Rudyard Kipling? What insights do his stories and poems give us into life in India during the Age of Imperialism? **=== I haven't, sorry!(elaborate; research)

===** #17 British rule in India had both benefits and costs for the Indian people. List four benefits and four costs of the British rule. **=== It increased trade and economic wealth, and ended up greatly increasing the population of India. Their rule introduced some of the worst famines ever recorded, however, and the lives of Indian people suffered a huge toll. (4:4 facts not so easily discernible, might want to refine and research more)

===** #18 What was the immediate cause of the Sepoy Mutiny ? **=== The notion that the EITC was trying to convert Hindus and Muslims to Christianity.

===** #19 Why did 30 million Indians die of starvation between 1800 and 1900 ? **=== Increased taxes and etc. ended up causing an increased cost for everything, including food.

===** #20 What were the goals of Gandhi’s movement? **=== Completely self-government to India.

With India's new independence from Great Britain.
 * 21 How did the cultural revival in** **India** **in the nineteenth century begin?**

===** #22 Have you ever been to Texas? Did you know that Texas was once an independent country? How did Texas become a U.S. state? **=== The republic's inability to defend itself, along with the fact it granted permissions for the US to colonize in their territory eventually ended up with Texas becoming a state of the U.S.

===** #23 Indicate which Latin American countries gained their independence in the following years. (1804, 1810, 1821, 1822, 1823) **=== Haiti, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela.

===** #24 Who were the “Liberators of South America ”? **=== Simon Bolivar, Francisco de Paula Santander, Bernardo O'Higgins, Jose de San Martin, Antonio Jose de Sucre, Bill Brown.

===** #25 In what ways were large landowners a fundamental problem for the new Latin American nations? **=== To be revisited.

===** #26 Why did the United States [[@[]–1964)|support]] therebellion in Panama ? To be revisited. #27 What were some characteristics of middle-class Latin Americans ? **=== To be revisited.