6.1 Rationales for Imperialism

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Across
  1. 2. The English monarch granted the EIC a royal charter in 1600 giving it one of these.
  2. 4. An English writer whose poetry was used to justify colonization
  3. 6. Both Catholic and Protestant missionaries participated in _____.
  4. 10. Colonial powers felt justified in superimposing their own culture on others due to technological _____.
  5. 11. Building one of these was one way for a country to assert it's national identity
  6. 12. A British scientist who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection
  7. 14. _____ and debt lead to the Dutch government taking control of the VOC
  8. 15. Colonizers saw themselves as protectors rather than these
  9. 16. Government-chartered companies signed treaties with local rulers as a way to maximize _____.
Down
  1. 1. The idea that "survival of the fittest" proved the biological superiority of whites.
  2. 3. This Scottish missionary worked to end the illegal slave trade.
  3. 5. As the second _____ progressed, other nations began to challenge Britain's economic lead.
  4. 7. By 1857, this country controlled the entire Indian subcontinent
  5. 8. People who present theories as fact but are actually incompatible with the scientific method
  6. 9. During the 19th century, the EIC illegally exported this to China in exchange for tea
  7. 13. Taiwan was known by this name until the end of WWII