Name:
Period:
Date:
DeMatteo
Global 10
RBA
Research Based Activity:
Imperialism
Direction and Aspiration
To read – comprehend & synthesize the information in order to answer the following
☺ in your own words ☺
Text Pages 697-700 – Focus: The Middle East
1. Examine a Map of the region and summarize its strategic importance, as it related to trade.
2. Based on this section, explain why a country like Russia is always looking for access to
warm water ports.
Text Pages 685-689 - Focus: Africa
3. Identify the following figures as they relate to Imperialism in the region:
o David Livingston o Henry Stanley o Cecil Rhodes –
4. Summarize the reasons for and outcome of The “Mad Scramble” for Africa and The Berlin
Conference.
5. South Africa: A Quick History of Imperialism
Identify the Zulus
Identify The Boers and the Great Trek
Discuss the Cause and Outcome of the Boer War
Text Pages 690 – 698 Focus: Concept of Imperialism
6. Construct two charts that display basic facts about Imperialism:
Positive Impact
for the Colony
Negative Impact
for the Colony
Positive Impact
for the “Mother Country”
Negative Impact
for the “Mother Country”
Text Pages 701 - 705 Focus: India
7. Generalize The British East India Company and it’s OWNERSHIP of India.
8. Summarize the reasons for and outcome of: The Sepoy Rebellion AKA The Sepoy Munity
Text Pages 715 - 719 Focus: China
9. Summarize the reasons for and outcome of: The Opium War
10. Define and explain the following, as they relate to Imperialism in China:
The Open Door Policy –
Sphere of Influence Extra-Territoriality Taiping Rebellion and Boxer Rebellion –
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(What did they both have in common)
Text Pages 720 - 723 Focus: Japan
11. Summarize the relationship between the following, as they relate to Imperialism
in Japan:
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The Tokugawa Shogun-ate
Commodore Matthew Perry of the United States
The Treaty of Kanagawa
The Meiji Shogun-ate “Restoration”