Both the Suez Canal and Panama Canal facilitated the building and maintenance of empires by enabling naval vessels to travel rapidly between the world's oceans.
True or False?Answer: True
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AP World History Chapter 33
- Between 1800 and 1914, some fifty million Europeans left their poor agricultural societies and sought opportunities overseas, a majority heading to the United States.
- In some cases, colonial rule led to the introduction of new crops that transformed the landscape and social order of subject lands, for example the introduction of tea bushes from India to China.
- The United States emerged as a major imperial and colonial power after the brief Spanish-Cuban-American War.
- Because the nomadic peoples of Australia did not occupy lands permanently, British settlers considered the continent terra nullius, "land belonging to no one," and one that they could seize and put to their own uses.
- The underlying principle of indirect rule was the desire to keep African populations in check and permit European administrators to engage in a "civilizing mission."
- The Berlin West Africa Conference, which included delegates from fourteen European states and the United States, devised the ground rules for the colonization of Africa.
- The Dutch East India Company took advantage of Mughal weakness to strengthen and expand its trading posts in the eighteenth century.
- English writer Rudyard Kipling defined the "white man's burden" as the duty of European and Euro-American peoples to bring order and enlightenment to distant lands.
- During the second half of the nineteenth century, many Europeans believed that imperial expansion and colonial domination were crucial for the survival of their states.
- In 1916 the Indian National Congress
- Ram Mohan Roy was a
- In regard to imperialism, the Japanese and Americans
- The term "social Darwinism" is associated with
- The social Darwinists believed that
- Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau viewed Europeans as
- The author of the Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races was
- The Maji Maji rebellion occurred in
- In the nineteenth century, the majority of indentured laborers came from
- Between 1800 and 1914, how many Europeans migrated overseas?
- Under British control, Ceylon became a major producer of
- Japan became a major imperial power after its victory in the
- The Sino-Japanese War began with a dispute over
- The Roosevelt Corollary strengthened U.S. military and economic claims in which area of the world?
- Emilio Aguinaldo led an uprising in