Traditions and Encounters, 4th Edition (Bentley)

Chapter 33: THE BUILDING OF GLOBAL EMPIRES

Study Questions

1
Summarize the economic, political, and cultural motives of nineteenth-century imperialists. To what extent did those motives overlap and to what extent did they conflict with one another?
2
What were the principal "tools of empire"—the various technologies that gave the Europeans such an advantage?
3
How did the British establish control over India in the early nineteenth century? How did the Sepoy Mutiny contribute to this process?
4
Which Asian states managed to maintain their sovereignty in the nineteenth century? Why these states?
5
Who were the major players in the "scramble for Africa"? What was the principal objective of this land-grab?
6
Compare the British conquest of South Africa with that of Egypt and Sudan.
7
Why were the great powers less interested in the Pacific islands? What did they want from these islands?
8
What did the United States gain from the Spanish-American War? Note the political status of each of these acquisitions.
9
Where did the Japanese direct their ambitions as a new imperial power? How successful were they?
10
How did the imperial powers transform the economies of their colonies? Consider especially India and Ceylon.
11
Summarize some of the significant migrations of the late nineteenth century. What were the typical destinations?
12
How did subject peoples resist colonial rule? How did imperialism foster conflicts within colonial societies?
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