Chapter 12 Test

Question 1

sphere of influence

Answer 1

An area in which an outside power claimed exclusive investment of trading privileges

Question 2

Shaka Zulu

Answer 2

Zulu leader

Question 3

Elite

Answer 3

Upper class

Question 4

Sultan

Answer 4

Leader of the Ottoman Empire

Question 5

Genocide

Answer 5

Wiping out a race of people

Question 6

Concession

Answer 6

Special privileges given to foreign powers

Question 7

Sati

Answer 7

Custom in Hinduism; widow joined her husband in death by throwing herself on his funeral pyre

Question 8

Trade surplus

Answer 8

Exporting more than importing

Question 9

Trade deficit

Answer 9

Importing more than exporting

Question 10

Indemnity

Answer 10

Payer for losses in war

Question 11

Extraterritoriality

Answer 11

Right to live under ones own laws in another country

Question 12

Sun yixian

Answer 12

Revolutionary leader in China, established a Chinese republic

Question 13

How did industrial revolution contribute to imperialism

Answer 13

Nations sought New markets

Question 14

Why did many western leaders feel they needed colonies and a global empire

Answer 14

To strengthen national security

Question 15

How did westerners feel about their culture compared to the culture of Africa and India

Answer 15

That it was better than non westerner cultures

Question 16

What were the criticisms of imperialism

Answer 16

That colonialism was immoral

Question 17

imperialism

Answer 17

The domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life in another region

Question 18

What weakened the Asante kingdom

Answer 18

Countries wanted to defeat the Asante

Question 19

What caused Europeans to try to colonize Africa

Answer 19

Kind Leopolds colonization of the Congo

Question 20

What was Ethiopia able to maintain its independence from Italy

Answer 20

Their leader, menelik, modernized Ethiopia and defeated Italy in battle

Question 21

What were the beliefs of the Wahhabi movement

Answer 21

To return to the simplicity and purity of Islam

Question 22

What was the Ottoman Empire falling apart in the late 1800s

Answer 22

Because of our nationalism

Question 23

How did the Turks treat the Armenians

Answer 23

Committed genocide against them

Question 24

How did the British gain control of the Suez Canal

Answer 24

They bought shares in the canal from Egypt

Question 25

Why did foreign interest increase in Persia

Answer 25

Oil was discovered

Question 26

Why were the British able to take control of India

Answer 26

India was not united

Question 27

What caused the sepoy rebellion

Answer 27

Laws were passed that ignored Indians religious beliefs

Question 28

What were the benefits of British rule in India

Answer 28

A more fair legal system

Question 29

What role did education play in the rise of Indian nationalism

Answer 29

Educated Indians demanded self rule

Question 30

How did the opium war start

Answer 30

Britain refused China’s demand to stop selling opium

Question 31

What were the results of the sino-Japanese war

Answer 31

Japan modernized; China remained backwards

Question 32

What did the open door policy propose

Answer 32

Having equal access to Chinese trade for European nations and the US

Question 33

What were the social Darwinist arguments in favor of imperialism

Answer 33

Europeans thought they had a duty to bring their civilization to other nations

Question 34

Why did David living stone what to open the interior of Africa to European powers

Answer 34

To end the slave trade

Question 35

Why did Russia want to seize the Bosporus and Dardanelles

Answer 35

To gain access to the Mediterranean Sea