TIMELINE OF LATE 19C IMPERIALISM |
| authoritarianism --> political situation in which one person or a small group of people have absolute or nearly absolute control |
| Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) --> Prince Bismarck-Schonhausen, was a Prussian statesman who united the German states into one empire. He declared that the great problems of his time must be settled by "blood and iron" instead of by speeches and resolutions. He was forced to resign as German Chancellor by Kaiser Wielhelm II in 1890. |
| Boers --> white Europeans |
| cultural diffusion --> transmission of a cultural trait from the region where it originated to another cultural region. |
| ethnocentrism --> prejudice based on the premise that one's own culture or way of life is superior to all other people's culture or ways of life |
| expansion -->policy of increasing one's own territory or control, usually at the expense of others |
| George Goldie --> chartered the Niger River |
| Great Trek --> movement of the Boers north |
| imperialism --> national policy of conquest of other regions of peoples for the purpose of extending political and economic control and exploiting the resources of the otehr religion of people |
| imperial rule --> rule by an emperor or empress; rule of one country over others. |
| David Livingstone --> a Scottish missionary, explored the Zambezi River and in 1855 named Victoria Falls; British explorers John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant, traveling downstream, and Sir Samuel White Baker, working upstream, locate the sources of the Nile in 1863. |
| Manchu Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty --> foreign rulers in China |
| Commodore Perry --> opened up Japanese ports by using a kind of threat |
| Cecil Rhodes --> prime minister of Cape Colony; wanted a railroad to run through Africa so it would be connected |
| Shaka --> King of the Zulus; slowed down British expansion |
| spheres of influence --> territory where the interests of one nation are regarded by other nations to be dominant; the enclaves on the coast of China controlled by different European nations in the 19th century. |
| Henry Stanley --> 1870 discovered the source of the Congo River and sailed it to the Atlantic Ocean |
| Tippu Tib --> African leader that controlled a vital trade route with the Europeans on the Niger River |
| Samori Toure --> befriended the French and signed a treaty that France broke |
| West African Patrol --> shipping police force from Britain that stopped the slave trade |