Question 1

Analyze the relationship between the effort to spread Christianity through missionary activity and the rise of European imperial ambitions during the nineteenth century.When did missionary goals complement imperial goals,and when did the two sets of goals diverge? Which project had a more enduring impact on the peoples of Asia and Africa?

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Question 2

Why did the tsars extend Russia's power and influence over central and eastern Asia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? How successful were they in doing so,and why?

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Question 3

Compare and contrast the origins,meaning,and effects of missionary activity sent by Protestant nations with those sent by Catholic ones.Which groups had a greater impact on life in Africa and Asia,and why?

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Question 4

British and Russian rivalry over Central Asia ended with ________.

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Question 5

Japan became a major imperial power in Asia in 1895 after defeating ________.

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Question 6

How did major technological changes in the West help drive imperialism during the nineteenth century?

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Question 7

An arrangement in which a Western nation placed officials in a foreign state to oversee its government without formally assuming responsibility for its administration is known as a ________.

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Question 8

To preserve their political power and economic privileges,the white elite of South Africa eventually enforced a policy of racial ________,or "separateness."

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Question 9

How did British trade and imperial policies seek to benefit the home country? Compare and contrast several policies for ruling and controlling the empire,and explain how they furthered the empire's underlying goals.

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Question 10

Compare and contrast the features that distinguished the "new" from the "old" imperialism.How much of a departure was the "new" imperialism from previous attempts at imperial dominance?

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Question 11

Analyze the scientific areas of research during the nineteenth century,and answer the question: Was scientific research controlled by imperialist motives? Draw on at least one example from botany,zoology,medicine,or anthropology to explain the relationship between science and imperialism during these years.

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Question 12

The theory of the multiple origins of the races of humankind was known as ________.

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Question 13

U.S.support for Cuba's revolt led to the ________.

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Question 14

What explains the similarities and differences between the ways various European states acquired and ruled empires in Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

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Question 15

How did European control of Africa affect the lives of people in Africa? Discuss the specific social,political,economic,and demographic effects of European control and colonization in at least two different colonies.

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Question 16

At the battle of ________,11,000 Sudanese troops were killed and 16,000 were wounded,compared to only 48 British troops lost.

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Question 17

How did changes in the natural and social sciences serve to justify European imperialism? Explain how changes in different scientific disciplines related to each other in reinforcing European judgments of Asian and African peoples.

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Question 18

The single greatest obstacle to European penetration of inland sub-Saharan Africa was ________.

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Question 19

In ________,Europeans could experience different parts of their nation's empires in a pleasant setting of flowerbeds,trees,and greenhouses.

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Question 20

Power vacuums created by the decay of the ________ led to many of the territorial acquisitions associated with the New Imperialism.

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Quiz 25: The Age of Western Imperialism