Name _______________________
Date___________
Homework #20-28, due Wednesday, January 18th, 2017
Use your notes and textbook to answer the following questions. Make sure your answers are in complete
sentences. Answers should be written in BLUE OR BLACK PEN on a separate piece of paper. (Or you can type
them!).
1. Define the term unification.
2. What three things did all Italians have in common?
3. Explain the roles of Mazzini, Cavour, and Garibaldi in Italy’s desire for unification.
4. When did Italy finally become unified? Who was Italy’s first king?
5. What was Prussia? Who were they jealous of?
6. Identify Wilhelm I.
7. Describe who Otto Von Bismarck was. List three facts about him.
8. How did Von Bismarck feel Germany should unify?
9. Define the term real politick.
10. Identify the war that finally gave Germany its necessary power to unify.
11. How a unified Germany different than a unified Italy?
12. Define the term imperialism.
13. Identify three “new” reasons why Europeans wanted to imperialize the Non-Western world.
14. Describe Africa before the arrival of Europeans? Why were Europeans unable to go into the interior of Africa
before the 1800s?
15. How did the Berlin Conference shape the European conquest of the African continent?
16. Define the term “scramble for Africa.” Identify one African nation that was not taken over by the Europeans.
17. Compare and contrast indirect and direct rule.
18. How did the Belgians abuse the rights of the people living in the Congo?
19. Identify three different groups that were fighting for power in South Africa. By WWII, who help control of the
country?
20. Define the term apartheid.
21. Use your textbook to answer the question: (762-766): What was the status of Muslim empires by the 1700s?
22. Use your textbook to answer this question (762-766): Who was Muhammad Ali (no not the boxer) and what
was his impact on Egypt.
23. Use your textbook to answer this question (762-766): Who built the Suez Canal? What bodies of water does it
connect? Why was it so important?
24. Use your textbook to answer this question (762-766): What happen to Egypt in the year 1882? Does this
mean that they were taken over by a European power?
25. Who were the Mughals? Why were they different from previous empires in India?
26. What is the importance of the Taj Mahal?
27. Why were the British interested in taking over India?
28. How did the British East India Company take over India?
29. What do the Sepoy Mutiny and the Boxer Rebellion have in common?
30. How did British imperialism help India?
31. How did British imperialism hurt India?
32. Who was in control of China by the year 1800?
33. Define the term favorable balance of trade.
34. What factors weakened the Chinese strength within its own country?
35. Why did the Chinese lose the Opium War? What was the major effect of this war?
36. Define the term sphere of influence.
37. What happened to the Chinese dynastic system in the year 1911?
38. Identify Sun Yat Sen. What was the impact of his actions?
39. Describe Sun Yat Sen’s “three principles of the people.”
40. By the year 1930, what was the status of China?
41. What was the major impact of the Tokugawa Shogunate on Japan during the years 1600-1854?
42. When we say that Matthew Perry “opened up Japan,” what do we actually mean by it?
43. Why was Japan different than other areas of the world that experienced imperialism during the 19th century?
44. What were the major impacts of Western influence in Japan by the end of the 19th century/early 20th century?