AP European History
Chapter 25 Study Guide
* After reading the chapter thoroughly, please answer the following four questions – each in a solid
paragraph of 9-12 sentences. Your paragraphs should be well constructed and full of facts to
explain your points, and they should reflect a good reading of the chapter.
1) What geopolitical factors made the European balance of power so unstable around the turn of the
century?
2) What social, political, and economic forces encouraged the nations of Europe to create overseas
empires in the late 19th century?
3) How and why did European imperialism differ in Africa and Asia?
4) How did imperial expansion around the globe transform the lives of Europeans at home?
* Next, please define and/or briefly identify the following terms with 1-2 sentences/phrases…
1) Three Emperors’ League –
2) Congress of Berlin –
3) Triple Alliance –
4) Triple Entente –
5) “new imperialism” –
6) Suez Canal –
7) Ferdinand de Lesseps –
8) quinine pills –
9) David Livingstone and Henry Stanley –
10) J.A. Hobson –
11) jingoism –
12) “scramble for Africa” –
13) King Leopold II –
14) Hiram Maxim –
15) Emperor Menelik II –
16) Oreste Baratieri –
17) Francesco Crispi –
18) Orange Free State and the Transval –
19) the Great Trek –
20) Cecil Rhodes –
21) Jameson Raid –
22) Alfred Milner –
23) Boer War –
24) Punjab –
25) British East India Company –
26) opium –
27) Opium War” –
28) Treaty of Nanking –
29) “spheres of influence” –
30) “treaty ports” –
31) extraterritoriality –
32) Boxer Rebellion –
33) Siam –
34) Jose Rizal –
35) Sin-Japanese War –
36) Rudyard Kipling –
37) Kaiser Wilhelm II’s “three Ks” –
38) Imperialism, A Study –
39) Imperalism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism –