Chapter 18 - Colonial Encounters in Asia, Africa, and Oceania

Nguyen Khuyen

________ (1835- 1909) was a Vietnamese writer who lived from 1835 to 1909.

Colonial conquest

________ occurred later, in the second half of the nineteenth century, and more suddenly and intentionally than in India or Indonesia, for much of Africa, mainland Southeast Asia, and the Pacific islands.

African

Steam- powered ships traveling via the new Suez Canal, which opened in 1869, enabling Europeans to reach remote Asian, ________, and Pacific ports more swiftly and consistently, as well as penetrate inner rivers.

eighteenth century

During the ________, Europeans and Americans were driven to the Pacific Oceania region by exploration and scientific curiosity, missionary zeal for conversion, and commercial interests in sperm whale oil, coconut oil, guano, mineral nitrates and phosphates, sandalwood, and other goods.

Italy and Germany

The unification of ________ in 1871 intensified Europe's already aggressive foreign relations, and much of this competition spilled over into the fight for colonies and economic concessions in Asia, Africa, and Pacific Oceania.

North America

It had 3.7 billion pounds sterling invested overseas in 1914, about evenly split between Europe, ________, and Australia on the one side, and Asia, Africa, and Latin America on the other.

Mass nationalism

made imperialism so popular in Europe, particularly in the final quarter of the nineteenth century

Suez Canal

enabled Europeans to reach remote Asian, African, and Pacific ports more swiftly and consistently, as well as penetrate inner rivers

Scramble for Africa

pitched a half-dozen European countries against one another as they partitioned the whole continent in only twenty-five years