Sri Lanka. British rule.

b.Built railroads and

Ceylon telegraph lines, new
canals, harbors, and
irrigation methods

sati Burning of
the widow..

refers to competition
"The Great between Britain and
Russia in central
Game" Asia. ALMOST
started a war.

Dutch East held tight

control of
India Indonesia.
Company More power.
 A federation of the three
French Vietnamese regions.
French encouraged
conversion to
Indochina Christianity, established
western-style schools

Thailand. left in
Kingdom place as buffer
between Burma
of Siam and Indochina

David Missionary. Set

up mission
Livingstone posts in Africa.

Henry Stanley to create

sent by
Leopold II of colony in
Belgium Congo
 It opened to shipping in
Suez 1869 and shortened the
sea voyage between
Europe and Asia. Its

Canal strategic importance led to

the British conquest of
Egypt in 1882.

Dutch Farmers. First to

settle south Africa.
Afrikaners enslaved black African
population. Led to
British invasion and
abolishion of slaves.

British defeated
Boer Afrikaners,
Union of South
War Africa

European powers set rules for

carving Africa into colonies.
The Berlin Occupation, supported by
European armies, established
colonial rule in Africa. By 1900
Conference all of Africa, except Ethiopia
and Liberia, was controlled by
European powers
 Granted power to private
companies. Empowered to
build plantations, mines,
Concessionary railroads. made use of forced
labor and taxation, as in
companies Belgian Congo. unprofitable,
often replaced by more direct
rule

civilizing The notion that

colonialism was a
duty for Europeans
mission and a benefit for the
colonized. Imperialism

Captain British. reached

Australia, reported
James it suitable for
Cook settlement

The proclamation by U.S.

president James
Monroe. a.Opposed
Monroe European imperialism in
the Americas; justified
Doctrine U.S. intervention
 United States
The defeated Spain and
Spanish-American took over Cuba,
War Puerto Rico, Guam,
and Philippines.

The Gave United

States access
Panama to Atlantic and
Canal Pacific

bought British
Meiji warships, built up
government navy, established
military academies

Rebellion in Korea: Chinese

army sent to restore order,
The reassert authority...Meiji
leaders declared war against
Sino-Japanese China, demolished Chinese
fleet...China forced to cede
War Korea, Taiwan, Pescadores
Islands, Liaodong peninsula
 Japanese navy
The destroyed local Russian
forces; Baltic fleet sent
Russo-Japanese as reinforcements.
War Japan now a major
imperial power

African resistance
Maji Maji to Germany in the
Tanganvika
rebellion Colony.
Unsuccessful.

Reactionary French
racial thinker. Divided
Gobineau society into four main
racial groups, each
with peculiar traits

"survival of
Social fittest" used to
Darwinism justify European
domination