chapter 27

Question 1

The seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country is called _____.

Answer 1

Imperialism

Question 2

Scottish missionary who travelled deep into the African Jungle and disappeared for years until found by Henry Stanley in 1871.

Answer 2

Livingstone

Question 3

King of Belgium and his Congo territory.

Answer 3

Leopold

Question 4

The belief that one race is superior to others is called ____.

Answer 4

Racism

Question 5

He was a British businessman who supported expansion of the empire throughout Africa.

Answer 5

Rhodes

Question 6

The _____ was the world’s first automatic machine gun that was used to overwhelm African resistance to European empire building.

Answer 6

Maxim

Question 7

This European conference effectively divided African lands into European territories.

Answer 7

Berlin

Question 8

This was an important cash crop for plantations in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Answer 8

Rubber

Question 9

Shaka was the leader of the ____ people in South Africa.

Answer 9

Zulu

Question 10

There were white South Africans of Dutch descent in the 1700s and 1800s.

Answer 10

Boers

Question 11

Future world leader who was a war correspondent during the Boer War in South Africa.

Answer 11

Churchill

Question 12

A country or a territory governed internally by a foreign power.

Answer 12

Colony

Question 13

A country or a territory with its own internal government but under the control of an outside power.

Answer 13

Protectorate

Question 14

An area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges.

Answer 14

Sphere of influence

Question 15

_____ imperialism is when An independent but less developed country controlled by private business interests rather than other governments.

Answer 15

Economic

Question 16

Europeans governed people in a parental way by providing for their needs but not giving them rights is referred to as ____.

Answer 16

Paternalism

Question 17

____ is a policy was based on the idea that in time, the local populations would adopt French culture and become like the French

Answer 17

Assimilation

Question 18

Muslim people of Nigeria who wanted a strong central government in the colony.

Answer 18

Hausa Fulani

Question 19

Only in _____ did the native people in Africa retain their independence.

Answer 19

Ethiopia

Question 20

Deadly disease that spread into Africa during European colonialism.

Answer 20

Smallpox

Question 21

These were built by colonizers in Africa that improved transportation on the continent.

Answer 21

Railroads

Question 22

Muslim empire throughout the middle east in the 1800s.

Answer 22

Ottoman

Question 23

Title of the Ottoman king.

Answer 23

Sultan

Question 24

An interest in or taking of land for its strategic location or products is called _____.

Answer 24

Geopolitics

Question 25

War in southern Russia between the Ottomans, French, and British on one side and the Russians on the other.

Answer 25

Crimean

Question 26

The area that includes Romania, Montenegro, Cyprus, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Bulgaria.

Answer 26

Balkans

Question 27

The _____ game is the title referred to the strategic political movements by Great Britain and Russia in Central Asia.

Answer 27

Great

Question 28

Name of the first local ruler of Egypt in the 1830s (first and last name).

Answer 28

Muhamm Adali

Question 29

Egypt’s vital geopolitical point was this (two words).

Answer 29

Suez canal

Question 30

A tobacco boycott in this country was in response to the belief that British interests were becoming too powerful there.

Answer 30

Persia

Question 31

Indian soldiers who were led by British officers.

Answer 31

Sepoys

Question 32

This colony was seen as the most important British colony in the 1800s and obtained the title “Jewel in the crown.”

Answer 32

India

Question 33

China’s plantation crop.

Answer 33

Tea

Question 34

Exchanged for tea, this British drug led to a rebellion in China in the 1800s.

Answer 34

Opium

Question 35

The _____ Mutiny was caused by gossip spread among the Indian soldiers, that the cartridges of their new Enfield rifles were greased with beef and pork fat. To use the cartridges, soldiers had to bite off the ends and thus violated their religious beliefs.

Answer 35

Sepoy

Question 36

Refers to British rule over India from 1757 until 1947.

Answer 36

Raj

Question 37

Commander of the British Army in India in late 1800s.

Answer 37

Kitchener

Question 38

Father of Modern India.

Answer 38

Roy

Question 39

Strategic Geopolitical point in Southeast Asia.

Answer 39

Singapore

Question 40

This modern Southeast Asian Archipelago had been a colony of the Dutch in the 1800s.

Answer 40

Indonesia

Question 41

Primary nation in French Indochina.

Answer 41

Vietnam

Question 42

King Chulalongkorn ruled this Southeast Asian nation that remained independent from foreign control.

Answer 42

Siam

Question 43

Philippine freedom fighter in the later 1890s.

Answer 43

Aguinaldo

Question 44

Pacific archipelago annexed by the United States in 1898.

Answer 44

Hawaii

Question 45

Wealthy American plantation owner who invested in the Hawaiian fruit trade.

Answer 45

Dole