Check Your Understanding Questions

Check Your Understanding Questions

1 .
What are possible reasons why China did not industrialize when many other wealthy and powerful nations did?
2 .
What changes were made to Japan’s traditional social structure as a result of the Meiji Restoration?
3 .
What did “the civilizing mission” of industrialized nations entail?
4 .
How did technological developments assist in colonization?
5 .
Which two nations most interfered with Italy’s desire to establish an empire in Africa?
6 .
Why did the United States want to gain control of islands in the Pacific?
7 .
Why did Germany have only a few colonies compared to France and Britain?
8 .
How were Africans treated in the Congo Free State?
9 .
How did imperialism harm the health of colonized people?
10 .
What caused the Boxer Uprising in China?