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The Chinese gave Hong Kong to Great Britain as a result of the
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Opium War.
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Extraterritorialism refers to the
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right of a foreign power to try its own subjects for crimes committed in a foreign country.
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The confrontation between Japan and Western powers in the 1850s led to the
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abolition of the Tokugawa shoguns.
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The main reason Japan agreed so quickly to the terms offered by Matthew Perry was
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they lacked the technology to defeat the United States.
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Because foreigners were excluded from Japan and Japanese citizens were forbidden to return from abroad during the seventeenth century, we can conclude that the
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Japanese wanted to avoid foreign influence.
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The British appointed the first governor-general of India in the late 1700s
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after the British East India Company gained control of India.
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A major factor in the success that European imperialists experienced in gaining colonies during the 1800s was the
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level of technology the Europeans possessed.
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What eighteenth-century colony sought recognition and equality at the same time as Australia and New Zealand?
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Canada
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Because world markets that created a need for resources from far-off places also created an immigration of Europeans to these lands, the typical immigrant was a(n)
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farmer or an artisan.
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The quality that imperialists most sought in a colony was a(n)
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source of profit.
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The end of Asian supremacy in Asian seas during the 1800s was caused by the
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development of steam engines and steel ships
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The development of a world market was aided by all of the following except
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the decline of imperialism.
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The French entry into North Africa in 1830 was triggered by
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. a dispute over money.
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The late-nineteenth-century scramble for African territories was sparked by the
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involvement of Belgium and Germany in Africa
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The purpose of the Berlin Conference was to
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lay down rules for the division of Africa between the colonial nations.
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The two African peoples that succeeded in remaining free from foreign rule into the twentieth century were the Liberians and the
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Ethiopians.
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The Fashoda incident concerned the
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British and the French.
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The Great Trek was a nineteenth-century
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emigration movement
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African colonies were expected to be profitable. Which one of the following methods was not a way to obtain wealth from the African colonies?
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construction of heavy industry
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A similarity between British rule in India and its rule in South Africa during the nineteenth century was that the British
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treated the native inhabitants as inferiors.
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The Indian National Congress was
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an organization that worked for changes in British policy.
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When the Europeans arrived in India during the 1500s, the Mogul Empire had conquered most of
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northern India.
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In the nineteenth century, foreign powers were mainly interested in China
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as a source of trade and an investment opportunity.
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Russia took advantage of China's weakness in 1911 and gained control over a vast area of __________ China.
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northern.
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A ten-year treaty of alliance between an Asian nation and a Western power linked
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Japan and Britain.
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The diffusion of Western culture into Asian and African cultures has not
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lowered their health standards
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The first European settlers to have a major impact on Africa were
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missionaries.
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Colonial rule set in motion the modernization of much of Africa. When local inhabitants began to receive a European education, they began to desire a change because
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as they became more educated, the Africans began to question their treatment.
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Gideon Lang sought better treatment for the Australian aborigines by appealing for help from the
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government.
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Both Joseph Chamberlain and Leonard Woolf were members of the British government. Their feelings regarding imperialism indicate that the British
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were split over the value of British imperialism.
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