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OXFORD AQA A LEVEL HISTORY UNIT 1J British Empire book 1857-1967 TIMELINE.
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Commerce Civilisation Conflict
- Trade, infrastructure investment, military - Missionaries = Mary Slessor, - Arabi Revolt = Colonel Arabi Pasha,
intervention, cycle of dependency, Amy Carmichael, Mary Egypt’s weak economy, political
personal influence, strategic factors, Carpenter tesnions, led to occupation of Egypt
chartered companies, mercantilism, - Victorian era = ‘strong moral 1882
informal empire, protectionist principles’, Christian - Mahdist Revolt = 1881-85, Siege of
- American Civil War 1861-65 = Egyptian imperialism, social reformers Khartoum, Gordon dead.
cotton and female missionaries, - Indian Rebellion 1857 = sepoys, cultural
- Construction of the Suez Canal 1869 ‘civilised’ vs ‘non-civilised’ and social grievances.
- Disraeli and the Suez Canal 1875 spheres - South Africa = indigenous relations,
- Public works in India [railways, dams, - ‘Civilising’ missions Bantu peoples, Boer peoples, mass-
irrigation] - Post-Indian rebellion = annexation of land
- Long Depression, 1873-96 education, jobs
- Chinese Empire, Opium Wars - Attitudes to empire = tales of
- Technology, clipper ships, steamships adventure, imperial exhibitions,
- Mineral Revolution in SA = 1866 social-Darwinism
diamonds, 1886 gold
- Gold Rush in Australia and New Zealand
Competition The development of imperialism Characters
- The Brussels Conference 1876 = Leo of - Traders = Cecil Rhodes, Sir William
Belgium, explorers, unregulated territory Mackinnon, George Goldie, merchant-
- The Berlin Conference 1883-85 = Otto imperialists
von Bismarck, regulated territory, the - Missionaries = Mary Slessor, Amy
General Act, effective occupation Carmichael, Mary Carpenter
- ‘Scramble for Africa’, explorers, ‘spheres - Explorers = Livingstone, Kirk, Burton,
of influence’ Speke
- German, French and Russian expansion 1857-1890 -
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British politicians = Disraeli, Gladstone
Colonial administrators = Sir Evelyn
Baring, Bartle Frere
- Colonies = Mangal Pandeey, Isma’il
Pasha, INC, Colonel Arabi Pasha
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