1. What territories did Britain acquire in Asia and the Pacific after losing its American colonies?

2. How did France respond to its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War through imperial expansion?

3. Why did newly unified Italy and Germany pursue colonies in the mid-1880s?

1. What territories did Japan acquire through the Sino-Japanese War and what does this reveal about Japanese nationalism?

1. What false claims did pseudoscientists and phrenologists make about nonwhite races?

2. How did Social Darwinism misuse Darwin's theory of evolution to justify imperialism?

1. What cultural practices did colonial powers impose on their colonies and what was their stated purpose?

2. How did technological superiority influence colonial powers' beliefs about their right to dominate other societies?

1. What role did Christian missionaries play in European imperialism and colonization?

2. What humanitarian contributions did missionaries make beyond religious conversion?

1. What monopoly did the English East India Company receive and what goods did it trade?

2. How did the East India Company expand from a trading company into an agent of British imperialism?

1. What territory did the Dutch East India Company control and how did it establish dominance in the region?

1. What resources and markets did British colonies provide to support Britain's industrial economy?

2. Why did other nations begin challenging Britain's economic dominance through imperial expansion in Asia and Africa?