Crash Course World History Episode #35:
Imperialism
1) What did the British find the Chinese would buy?
Opium
2) What did Opium do to the Chinese?
Threatened China’s favorable balance of trade and led to drug addicts
3) What did the Treaty of Nanjing state?
Britain received Hong Kong, and five other treaty ports
4) What was the “Scramble for Africa”
Europe succeeded in colonizing Africa
5) Besides nationalism, what other motive did Europeans have to take over
places like Africa?
Controlling the means of production
6) What technology did Europeans have that made it easier for them to take
over areas of Africa?
Steam boats
7) How did Europeans go about dominating Africa?
Machine guns and violence
8) How did Africans react to the Europeans?
They were angry against the colonial administrative intrusions
9) How were Europeans able to rule places like India?
The East India Company raised its own private army and
controlled over the rest of the land
10) What country in Africa is a successful example of resisting Europeans?
Ethiopia
Imperialism
1) What did the British find the Chinese would buy?
Opium
2) What did Opium do to the Chinese?
Threatened China’s favorable balance of trade and led to drug addicts
3) What did the Treaty of Nanjing state?
Britain received Hong Kong, and five other treaty ports
4) What was the “Scramble for Africa”
Europe succeeded in colonizing Africa
5) Besides nationalism, what other motive did Europeans have to take over
places like Africa?
Controlling the means of production
6) What technology did Europeans have that made it easier for them to take
over areas of Africa?
Steam boats
7) How did Europeans go about dominating Africa?
Machine guns and violence
8) How did Africans react to the Europeans?
They were angry against the colonial administrative intrusions
9) How were Europeans able to rule places like India?
The East India Company raised its own private army and
controlled over the rest of the land
10) What country in Africa is a successful example of resisting Europeans?
Ethiopia
