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Imperialism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Opium War
        
        Cause: Europeans selling opium to Chinese population to make money.
        
        Effect: Treaty of Naking.
      - Taiping Rebellion
        
        Cause: radical political/ religious uprising
        
        Effect: Ended with 20 million lives,
      - The Boxer Rebellion
        
        Cause: Anger with foriegners
        
        Effect: Eventually influence overthrow and creation of the Chinese Republic.
    - - Open Door Policy (Saying China couldn't be colonized.)
    - - Economic growth
      - Materials
    - - Treaty of Naking
      - Open Door Policy
    - - Politically
        
        The ports of Canton, Amoy, Fuchau, Ningpo, and Shangai to be opened to British trade and residence, and trade conducted according to a well-understood tariff.
      - Economically
        
        Three millions of dollars to be paid for the debts due to British merchants.
      - Socially
        
        Started hatred for Europeans and their Ideals.
  - - - Sepoy Rebellion
        
        Cause: Resent of British control, racism, and discrimination.
        
        Effects: Became a colony of the British (which was controlled by East India Company before)
      - Swadeshi Movement (1905-1908)
        
        Cause: The Petition of Bengal 1905
        
        Effect: The staunch resistance convinced the government to set aside the partition, but the damage to British rule was done. It spurred the growth of nationalism and provided militant nationalists with a platform.
    - - Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) saw Western culture as unique and great, but he also saw no reason for Indians to be ashamed if their culture had different values, emphasizing society over individual self-interest.
        
        Cause: British teaching European ideals in schools.
        
        Effect: Sparking nationalist movement.
    - - Materials
      - Large market
    - - Economically
        
        Railways built
        
        India joined the world market.
        
        Undermined domestic industry.
        
        Heavy taxes
      - Politically
        
        British rule did create unity and an infrastructure that would eventually give India the means to achieve independence.
        
        All treaties made would be respected by Britan.
        
        Queen of Britain was acknowledged as empress of India.
        
        Caution in enforcing "modernization"
      - Socially
        
        Schools were built to westernize India.
        
        Rejection of European Ideals.
    - - Parliament of Bengal 1905
  - - - Opium Wars were fought for the British right
        to sell opium to the Chinese.
        
        Cause: Europeans trying to sell opium to Chinese public.
        
        Effect: British earned right to sell opium and created spheres of influence within China.
    - - Open Door Policy (saying China couldn't be colonized.)
    - - Socially
        
        Education, health, and sanitation improved.
        
        Millions of people, from different ethnic groups,
        changed the racial makeup of Southeast Asia.
      - Religiously
        
        Millions of people, from different ethnic groups,
        changed the racial makeup of Southeast Asia.
        
        Racial and religious tension still exists today.
      - Economically
        
        Economies based on cash crops.
        
        Roads, harbors, rail systems, and improved
        communication was established.
      - Politically
        
        Britain gained Hong Kong.
        
        Britain gained extraterritorial rights.
        
        Europeans did not obey Chinese laws.
        
        Other Western powers gained spheres of
        influence in China.
    - - Open door Policy
    - - Cash Crops and Materials
      - Land
      - Power
  - - - Berlin Conference
        
        Cause: European Powers wanted land, money, and power.
        
        Effect: Africa was completely taken over, except for Ethiopia and Liberia, by European powers without consent. Leading to slavery and other horrible fates for the natives.
    - - Best way to meet all motivations was to bully foreign countries that weren't industrialized to stop growing crops for their food and instead to focus on cash crops and mining.
      - Means to Justify: Racist views.
    - - Need for new Markets
      - Overproduction and Under-consumption in Europe.
      - New sources for raw materials
      - Cheap labor
      - Cheap land
      - Demand for Products not grown in Europe.
      - Spread Christianity
      - Increase Power and Prestige of counties.
    - - "White Man's Burden"
    - - Politically
        
        Loss of land and independence.
        
        Local warfare reduced.
        
        Divided by European Boundaries without regard for African's.
        
        Problems between ethnic groups in Africa.
        
        Leaders replaced.
      - Economically
        
        Railroads were built, dams, telephone, and telegraph lines.
        
        Economies expanded for European Benefit.
        
        Lands taken.
        
        Africans had to work for corperations.
      - Socially
        
        Hospitals and schools were built.
        
        Sanitation improved
        
        Died from new diseases
        
        Death due to resisting Europeans.
        
        Cash crops replaced food crops.
        
        Africans struggled with identity.
        
        Families suffered from slavery.