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B) quinine
What medication proved to be effective in controlling malaria and allowing Europeans to venture into the mosquito-infested interior of Africa?
B) a combo of military force, political domination, and an ideology of beneficial reform
What new model for European expansion did Britain establish in Egypt
B) a combo of military force, political domination, and an ideology of beneficial reform
What new model for European expansion did Britain establish in Egypt?
C) small farmer or rural crafts person
The typical European immigrant was
A) Europeans had obtained their primary goal of commercial and diplomatic relations
After 1860, why did foreign aggression diminish in China until near the end of the century?
C) it selectively adopted those elements of Western society that were in keeping with Japanese tradition
By 1890, how had Japan met the challenge of Western expansion?
C) feared that France and Germany would seal off their empires with high tariffs, causing it to lose future economic opportunities
Great Britain chose to seize land in Africa and Asia in the late 19-century because it
B) he promoted large irrigation networks for cotton production and export
How did Ismail transform Egypt in the 19-century
A) he forced farmers to become tenants of large, private landowners who adopted commercial agriculture
How did Muhammad Ali finance his modernization of Egyptian society?
D) they worked to improve the lives of Indian women, moving them closer to Western standards through education and legislation
How did so,e British women seek to affect British colonialism in India in the 19-century
D) opium was grown legally in British-occupied India
How did the British obtain the opium that they smuggled into China
A) railroad lines connected resource-rich inland cities to seaports to facilitate Western trade but did not link inland cities to each other
How did the building of railroads in Latin America, Asia, and Africa facilitate Western economic interests as opposed to regional economic interests as opposed to regional economic interests?
A) by new communication systems, such as the telegraph, that could direct ships from port to port
How was the flow of good directed aroumd the globe in the 19-century
A) by new communication systems, such as the telegraph, that could direct ships from port to port
How was the flow of goods directed around the globe in the 19 century?
C) emigration increased about 20 years after a rapid growth in population, as lame became scarce
In most European countries, how was emigration related to population growth in the late 19 century?
C) the Netherlands
In the 19-century, what country dominated the 3 thousand mile archipelago that is now Indonesia?
C) the white race's supposed duty to civilize inferior, nonwhite races
Rudyard Kipling's "white man's burden" referred to
A) initiated a series of measures to reform Japan along modern lines
The Meiji Restoration restored the Japanese emperor to power in 1867 and
C) signaled the coming decay and collapse of capitalist society?
The Russian Marxist Vladimir Lenin asserted that imperialism
B) absorbed the largest overall number of European emigrants
The USA between 1815 and 1932
C) European states and North America
The largest share of European foreign investment went to
D) the economic gains were limited because the new colonies were too poor to buy European goods and offered few immediately profitable investments
To what extent did the New Imperialism result in economic gains and why?
C) the nationalist assertion that every people had a right to control their destiny
What belief drove native opponents to European colonial rule?
D) they were essential to great nations
What did Heinrich von Treitschke believe was the significance of colonies?
C) opium
What did the British use to break China's self-imposed isolation
B) the largest share of gains from trade, technology, and migration would flow to the West and its properties classes
What did the Western world hope to achieve through the global economic system?
D) a term used by modern scholars to describe the way Westerners misunderstood and described colonial subjects and cultures
What is "Orientialism"?
B) families and friends would coordinate their migrations so that they would settle together in a new land
What pattern did migration out of Europe often follow in the nineteenth century?
B) families and friends would coordinate their migrations so that they would settle together in a new land
What pattern did migration pity or Europe often follow I'm the 19 century
B) beliefs and policies that gab preferential treatment to establish inhabitants over immigrants
What was "nativism" in the 19 century
D) Britain has control of the seas
What was Britain's decisive advantage in its war with China?
C) open up four large cities to unlimited foreign trade with low tariffs
What was China required to do in the Treaty if Nanking (1842) that ended the first Opium Wars?
B) a rebellion of traditionalist Chinese patriots who wished to expel all Westerners from China
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
C) to meet the threat posed by outside powers
What was the all-important goal of the architects of the Meiji Restoration?
A) to create large political empires
What was the goal of the New Imperialism of the late 19 century?
D) the possibly of buying land in the home country
What was the primary factor that influenced whether European immigrants returned to their native lands?
B) effective occupation
What was the principle by which the European powers established their claim to an African territory after the Berlin Conference in 1884 and 1885?
C) it set up the terms for the division of most of Africa among European colonial powers
What was the result of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?
B) as a response to U.S. military pressure
Why did Japan open its shores to Western trade?
A) violent anti-Semitism in eastern Europe
Why were Jewish immigrants in the 19-century unlikely to return to their native land