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20 Cards in this Set
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Dr. David Livingston
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first white man to do humanitarian/religoius work in south/central Africa
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HM Stanley
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found livingston, newspaper reports spurred interest in Africa
King of Belgium: Congo |
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White Man's Burden
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military conquest, educate people, social darwinism
Rudyard Kipling |
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Rudyard Kipling
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White Man's Burden
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Berlin Conference
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1884
established rules for European division of Africa no imperial power can claim territory unless it controlled it slavery and slave trade in Africa terminated |
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Leopold II
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Belgian King
Congo playground cut peoples hands off |
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Battle of Omdurman
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1898 General Horatio defeated Sudanese tribesmen and killed 11,000 with machine guns
28 brits dead (England) |
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Fashoda Incident
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France and Britain almost at war over Sudan
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Boer Wars
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1899-1902
Boer: descendent of Dutch setteler Britain wanted Cape to Cairo (Cecil Rhodes) Kruger Telegram pissed off |
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Cicil Rhodes
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PM of Cape Colony in S. Africa
Cape to Cairo dream |
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Kruger Telegram
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Kaiser Wilheml II congratulated Boers for defeating British without German help
isses off England, they redouble efforts |
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Opium Wars
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Britain pays chinese with opium, result is wars from 1839-1841
Brits obviously win Ended with Treaty of Nanking 2nd: 1856-1860 China opened ports to British and French, forced to trade |
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Treaty of Nanking
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ended Opium Wars
Hong Kong given to bBrits 4 more ports British not subjected to Chinese law in China |
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Sino-Japanese War
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1894-1895 Japanese gets Taiwan
vs China wants to prove itself |
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British East India Company
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given control of India in 1763
Robert Clive controlls all by 1848 Sepoy Mutiny 1858 Brits control India entirely, improve it |
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Sepoy Mutiny
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1857-1858 insurrectoin of Hindu and Muslim soldiers in British army, crushed.
animal fat, sacrilege |
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Indochina
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France owns
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Boxer Rebellion
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1900 patriotic rebellion of Chinese nationalist against Westerners
Machu Dynasty fell |
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Das Kapital
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Karl Marx
Anti-Imperialist quest for markets leads to conquest |
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Russo-Japanese War
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1904-1905
competition for Manchuria defeat Russia West stunned Treaty of Portsmouth TR did it Japans wins Korea Russia loses Manchuria |
