Key Ideas

Think about the following questions as you watch the video

1. 01:21 How were the British able to move beyond trading only silver with China?
2. 02:05 What did Britain do when China stopped allowing them to trade?
3. 02:58 What were the terms of the treaty of Nanjing?
4. 06:21 What are some of the reasons Europeans were able to colonize almost all of Africa in the nineteenth century?
5. 07:15 Why does John Green hate Hiram Maxim?
6. 08:15 What are some of the countries that were not colonized by the Europeans?
7. 09:06 What does it mean that the European colonists resorted to indirect rule?
8. 10:21 What are some of the thoughts about why rulers allowed indirect rule?
9. 11:04 Although most of the colonization seemed fairly easy, what is one instance where Europeans faced some challenges in colonization occur?