chapter 27 Flashcards
The seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country is called _____.
Imperialism
Scottish missionary who travelled deep into the African Jungle and disappeared for years until found by Henry Stanley in 1871.
Livingstone
King of Belgium and his Congo territory.
Leopold
The belief that one race is superior to others is called ____.
Racism
He was a British businessman who supported expansion of the empire throughout Africa.
Rhodes
The _____ was the world’s first automatic machine gun that was used to overwhelm African resistance to European empire building.
Maxim
This European conference effectively divided African lands into European territories.
Berlin
This was an important cash crop for plantations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Rubber
Shaka was the leader of the ____ people in South Africa.
Zulu
There were white South Africans of Dutch descent in the 1700s and 1800s.
Boers
Future world leader who was a war correspondent during the Boer War in South Africa.
Churchill
A country or a territory governed internally by a foreign power.
Colony
A country or a territory with its own internal government but under the control of an outside power.
Protectorate
An area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges.
Sphere of influence
_____ imperialism is when An independent but less developed country controlled by private business interests rather than other governments.
Economic
Europeans governed people in a parental way by providing for their needs but not giving them rights is referred to as ____.
Paternalism
____ is a policy was based on the idea that in time, the local populations would adopt French culture and become like the French
Assimilation
Muslim people of Nigeria who wanted a strong central government in the colony.
Hausa Fulani
Only in _____ did the native people in Africa retain their independence.
Ethiopia
Deadly disease that spread into Africa during European colonialism.
Smallpox
These were built by colonizers in Africa that improved transportation on the continent.
Railroads
Muslim empire throughout the middle east in the 1800s.
Ottoman
Title of the Ottoman king.
Sultan
An interest in or taking of land for its strategic location or products is called _____.
Geopolitics
War in southern Russia between the Ottomans, French, and British on one side and the Russians on the other.
Crimean
The area that includes Romania, Montenegro, Cyprus, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Bulgaria.
Balkans
The _____ game is the title referred to the strategic political movements by Great Britain and Russia in Central Asia.
Great
Name of the first local ruler of Egypt in the 1830s (first and last name).
Muhamm Adali
Egypt’s vital geopolitical point was this (two words).
Suez canal
A tobacco boycott in this country was in response to the belief that British interests were becoming too powerful there.
Persia
Indian soldiers who were led by British officers.
Sepoys
This colony was seen as the most important British colony in the 1800s and obtained the title “Jewel in the crown.”
India
China’s plantation crop.
Tea
Exchanged for tea, this British drug led to a rebellion in China in the 1800s.
Opium
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.
Sepoy
Refers to British rule over India from 1757 until 1947.
Raj
Commander of the British Army in India in late 1800s.
Kitchener
Father of Modern India.
Roy
Strategic Geopolitical point in Southeast Asia.
Singapore
This modern Southeast Asian Archipelago had been a colony of the Dutch in the 1800s.
Indonesia
Primary nation in French Indochina.
Vietnam
King Chulalongkorn ruled this Southeast Asian nation that remained independent from foreign control.
Siam
Philippine freedom fighter in the later 1890s.
Aguinaldo
Pacific archipelago annexed by the United States in 1898.
Hawaii
Wealthy American plantation owner who invested in the Hawaiian fruit trade.
Dole
