Unit+6

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 * 1) 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? Sometimes it can be a good thing. If one country is struggling economically or needs something desperately that some other country can help them with or give them if they took control, it could be a good thing.


 * 1) 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 nineteenth century. (If a country remained free of colonial rule, write “none.”)


 * 1) 3 How was the "New Imperialism" different from earlier expansion by European nations? It's described basically as "empire for empire's sake".


 * 1) 4 How was Thailand able to remain free of colonial rule? Good leadership and government reforms.


 * 1) 5 How are direct and indirect rule different? Why was indirect rule not always used? Direct rule means that a power from the ruling country has power in the colony. Indirect rule means that some of the local power structure is kept in tact while still under rule of another country.


 * 1) 7 Has anyone ever told you that your traditions and customs were wrong? How would this make you feel? Yeah, I just told them that they were wrong and didn't really make me feel that bad


 * 1) 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


 * 1) 9 What forms of trade replaced the slave trade in West Africa? The Colonial Trade.


 * 1) 10 Why was Egypt important to Europeans in the nineteenth century? They had cotton and other resources related to production.


 * 1) 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.


 * 1) 12 What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference ?


 * 1) 13 Who were the Boers ?


 * 1) 14 What were the good and bad features of indirect rule ?
 * 2) 15 How did the new class of educated Africans feel about Western civilization and colonial rule?


 * 1) 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?
 * 2) 17 British rule in India had both benefits and costs for the Indian people. List four benefits and four costs of the British rule.#17 British rule in India had both benefits and costs for the Indian people. List four benefits and four costs of the British rule.


 * 1) 18 What was the immediate cause of the Sepoy Mutiny ?


 * 1) 19 Why did 30 million Indians die of starvation between 1800 and 1900 ?


 * 1) 20 What were the goals of Gandhi’s movement?


 * 1) 21 How did the cultural revival in India in the nineteenth century begin?


 * 1) 23 Indicate which Latin American countries gained their independence in the following years. (1804, 1810, 1821, 1822, 1823)


 * 1) 24 Who were the “Liberators of South America ”?


 * 1) 25 In what ways were large landowners a fundamental problem for the new Latin American nations?


 * 1) 26 Why did the United States the rebellion in Panama ?


 * 1) 27 What were some characteristics of middle-class Latin Americans ?