Chapter 24: The West and the World

When ________ arrived in Tokyo in 1853 with his crude but effective gunboat diplomacy, Japan was a complex feudal society.

________ in non- Western lands was historically limited to small elites, and ordinary people often did what their rulers told them to do.

The French had begun conquering ________ in 1830, and by 1880 substantial numbers of French, Italian, and Spanish colonists had settled among the overwhelming Arab majority there.

The revolution in land and sea transportation encouraged ________ to open up and exploit vast new territories around the world.

Transoceanic ________, firmly in place by the 1880s, enabled rapid communications among the financial centers of the world.

Prior to about ________, Bismarck, like many other European leaders at the time, had seen little value in colonies.

________, a radical member of the German Social Democratic Party, argued that capitalism needed to expand into noncapitalist Asia and Africa to maintain high profits.

________ in Egypt provided a new model for European expansion in densely populated lands.

For centuries ________ had sent more goods and inventions to Europe than it had received, and such was still the case in the early nineteenth century.

________ played an important role in the extension of political empires, especially in the British Empire.

The ________ in Europe marked a momentous turning point in human history.

The explosion of mass mobility in the ________, combined with the growing appeal of nationalism and scientific racism, encouraged a variety of attempts to control immigration flows and seal off national borders.

________ and missionaries first arrived in Japan in the sixteenth century.

The ________ coincided with Germanys sudden emergence as an imperial power.

________ became the first non- Western country to use an ancient love of country to transform itself and thereby meet the many- sided challenge of Western expansion.

The British, led by ________ (1853- 1902) in the Cape Colony, leapfrogged over the two Afrikaner states- the Orange Free State and the Transvaal- in the early 1890s and established protectorates over Bechuanaland (now Botswana) and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), named in honor of its founder.

________ attracted large numbers of Europeans to the banks of the Nile.

________ was the jewel of the British Empire, and no colonial area experienced a more profound British impact.

________ began to supplant sails on the oceans of the world in the late 1860s.

________ between nations has always stimulated economic development.

First appointed ________ in 1805 by the Ottoman sultan, Muhammad Ali set out to build his own state on the strength of a large, powerful army organized along European lines.

The ________ established the principle that European claims to African territory had to rest on "effective occupation "(a strong presence on the ground) to be recognized by other states.