History Flashcards
During this conflict, Wilhelm II requested Abdul Hamid II to stop Muslim troops from fighting. Those forces murdered Sugiyama Akira during this conflict and repelled the Seymour expedition. The Militia United in Righteousness fought alongside those forces, the Gansu Braves, in this conflict, where their siege of the Legation Quarter was lifted by the Eight-Nation Army. For the point, what anti-colonial, anti-missionary conflict was supported by Empress Cixi and led by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists in Qing China?
Boxer Rebellion
Religious persecutions by one monarch following this religion, Dhu Nuwas, contributed to the end of the Himyarite Kingdom. Followers of this religion in the Banu Qurayza (“kuh-RAY-zuh”) tribe were defeated at the Battle of the Trench. The “Beta” community of this religious group in Ethiopia were airlifted to another country in Operation (*) Solomon. Members of this religion from the Middle East and North Africa are known as Mizrahim (“miz-RA-heem”), and those from the Iberian peninsula are called Sephardim. Some members of this religion advocate for Aliyah as part of Zionism. For 10 points, name this religious group that populates much of Israel and is the target of anti-Semitism.
Judaism (Jews)
An expedition by Alfred Gaselee helped end this conflict, during which one side crossed the Amur River. A woman’s brigade known as the Red Lanterns formed during this conflict, which included a seige at Legation Quarter. Clemens von Ketteler was murdered during this conflict, and a Muslim force known as the Kansu Braves allied with (*) Dowager Empress Cixi during this conflict. The Open Door Policy was created in response to this event, which was ended by the Eight-Nation Alliance. For 10 points, name this anti-foreigner Chinese rebellion led by the “Righteous and Harmonious Fists.”
Boxer Rebellion
Followers of this religion in the Banu Qurayza tribe were defeated at the Battle of the Trench. The “Beta” community of this religious group in Ethiopia were airlifted to an Asian country in Operation Solomon. Members of this religion descended from Middle Eastern groups are known as Mizrahi. (*) Aliyah is the primary tenet of a movement involving this religious group, Zionism. For 10 points, name this target of anti-Semitism that populates much of Israel.
Judaism (Jews)
In a speech about this conflict, Wilhelm II declared that a certain group “will [never] ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.” Some of the clauses in a “Protocol” ending this conflict included an apology to the German emperor for Baron von Ketteler’s assassination and the destruction of the Taku Forts. This conflict was formally ordered by Empress Dowager Cixi [[SEE-SHEE]]. Won by the Eight-Nation Alliance, for the point, what anti-foreign “Rebellion” in China was named after the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists?
Boxer Rebellion
This ruler defended occupying a foreign port in a speech declaring that his realm had “planted its shield firmly on the ground” and promised to defend it with a “mailed fist.” Another speech by this ruler denounces China for “overturn[ing] the law of nations” and exhorts soldiers to imitate an ancient king, such that “no Chinese will dare to look cross-eyed” at his countrymen. This monarch’s naval squadron based at Kiautschou (“k’YAO-choh”) was unable to stop Sadakachi Kato’s naval bombardment during the siege of Tsingtao (“ching-DAO”), resulting in the loss of an overseas concession. This popularizer of the phrase “yellow peril” sent troops to fight the Boxer Rebellion as part of his nation’s policy of seeking a “place in the sun,” or Weltpolitik (“VELT-politic”). For 10 points, name this monarch who detailed his paranoia about Japan to his tsarist cousin in the Willy-Nicky letters prior to World War I.
Kaiser Wilhelm II
A sailor who threw a bucket overboard, killing a woman from this country, was handed over by the U.S. for execution in the Terranova Affair. Albert Wedemeyer blocked an attempt for the leader of a military force in this country to meet the U.S. President after informal contact was established in the Dixie Mission. The U.S. agreed to recognize an occupation of land in this country in exchange for recognition of U.S. sovereignty in Hawaii via an agreement negotiated by (*) Elihu (“EL-uh-hyoo”) Root. Caleb Cushing established official U.S. diplomatic relations with this country in the Treaty of Wanghia. John Hay demanded an “open door” policy to trade with this country. For 10 points, what country did the U.S. invade during the Boxer Rebellion?
China
In a cartoon about this conflict, a leopard biting a sword reaches towards the long braid of a sleeping beast while a bald eagle looks on. Participants in this conflict hid in a large arms depot to await rescue after the failed Seymour Expedition. During this conflict, Klemens von Ketteler was killed by the all-Muslim (*) Kansu Braves. This conflict began a year after the attempted Hundred Days’ Reform. A siege of the Legation Quarters was repelled by the Eight-Nation Alliance during this conflict. Empress Dowager Cixi supported the losing side of,for 10 points, what anti-Western revolt in China led by the “Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists?”
Boxer Rebellion
In this non-Irish war, John MacBride organized an all-Irish brigade that was officially recognized by one side’s government. An Australian veteran of this war named George Witton wrote Scapegoats of the Empire to defend a countryman’s decision to execute prisoners of war. Henri Bourassa resigned from the Canadian parliament in opposition to this war. Kaiser Wilhelm II (“the second”) sent a controversial telegram to the leader of one side in the war after defeating a botched raid. An all-Indian ambulance corps that participated in the Battle of Spion (“SPY”-on) Kop was set up by Mahatma Gandhi during this war. This war’s Jameson Raid was the subject of the Kruger Telegram. Emily Hobhouse led a campaign against the use of concentration camps during, for 10 points, what war in which Britain defeated and annexed two South African republics?
Second Boer War
During this conflict’s “black week,” one side was defeated by Louis Botha at the Battle of Colenso. The term “khaki election” was first used to describe a parliamentary election during this conflict. Millicent Fawcett led a commission investigating Herbert Kitchener’s use of concentration camps during this conflict. Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, led the defense in this conflict’s Siege of (*) Mafeking. The Jameson Raid preceded this conflict, in which the Transvaal and Orange Free State allied against British troops. For 10 points, name this war fought for control of Dutch-speaking colonies in South Africa.
Second Boer War
During this battle, a barrage by gunboats near Pittsburg Landing prevented one side’s forces from being overwhelmed by a Confederate assault. The Union defense near a sunken road during this battle was so fierce that it became known as the (*) “Hornet’s Nest”. General Albert Sidney Johnston was killed during this battle, becoming the highest ranking Civil War officer to die on the field. The loser of this battle was forced to evacuate the city of Corinth, leading to the fall of Vicksburg the next year. For 10 points, name this bloody 1862 battle that took place near the Tennessee River.
Battle of Shiloh
A celebrated general in this battle who surrendered his sword to Francis Marion Walker was named Benjamin Prentiss. After severe losses during this battle’s first day, one general declared, “lick ‘em tomorrow, though.” Prior to this battle, Union forces camped between Lick Creek and Owl Creek did not fortify their position on the assumption that Confederates would not attack after losing Fort (*) Donelson. Reinforcements under Don Carlos Buell helped stop an assault by P. G. T. Beauregard at this battle, thus turning the tide for the Union. Union forces at this battle had time to regroup thanks to a prolonged defense of the Hornet’s Nest. For 10 points, name this first big bloodbath of the Civil War, an 1862 battle fought in Tennessee.
Battle of Shiloh
During this war, Andrew Gould was stabbed with a pen-knife by Nathan Bedford Forrest, who he shot in the hip. In a battle in this war, Daniel Ruggles fired 50 cannons into the “Hornet’s Nest.” The victors of a battle in this war were reinforced on its second day by Carlos Buell. (*) P. G. T. Beauregard took control of an army in this war after Albert Sidney Johnston’s death at Shiloh. For 10 points, name this war, in which the Confederacy seceded from the Union in 1861.
Civil War
This leader was blamed for the attempted assassination of Bernardo Leighton [LAY-tun] in Rome. This leader was replaced by Patricio Aylwin [puh-TREE-see-oh EL-ween] in 1990. In 1998, this person was indicted by a judge in Spain and then was arrested in London. When he died in 2006, this person was on trial for the abduction and murder of over 100 dissidents during Operation Colombo. This leader made free-market economic reforms based on advice from a team dubbed the “Chicago Boys”. This leader came to power in a 1973 coup backed by the United States that removed Salvador Allende [“eye”-EN-day]. For 10 points, name this leader of Chile.
Augusto Pinochet
This man’s forces planned an assassination attempt on Bernardo Leighton. Atrocities committed under this leader were documented by the Rettig and Valech Reports. This man’s economic policy was largely based on the works of Milton Friedman and a group of economists known as the Chicago Boys. His secret police, the DINA, initiated the plans for Operation (*) Condor. This man was responsible for shelling La Moneda and leading a US-backed coup against the leader of the Popular Unity party and socialist president Salvador Allende. For 10 points, identify this Chilean dictator notorious for human rights violations.
Augusto Pinochet
After the assassination of one leader of this country, a woman nicknamed “Parade” gathered the dismembered remains in a sack. The letters of one consul to this country, Edward Stevens, are an important primary source for one conflict. A leader of this country traveled from town to town ordering massacres of foreigners, but spared Polish defectors. This country split into a northern kingdom and a southern republic after the assassination of a general from its War of Knives. A book reappraising the role of (*) race in this country’s independence struggle was written by C.L.R. James; that struggle was the third revolution in the Age of Revolution. Jean-Jacques Dessalines (dessa-LEEN) led this country after the most successful slave rebellion in history. For 10 points, Toussaint L’Ouverture led what country to independence from France?
Haiti
The Ardouin and Nau brothers were historians from this country’s School of 1836. A diplomat from this country who remarked “fear to ever become someone’s Ethiopia” during the 1930s, Alfred Auguste Nemours, wrote a military history of this country. A work on this country discusses educated western men like “Pericles, Tom Paine, Jefferson, Marx and Engels” in contrast to this country’s leader, who signed a treaty with Thomas Maitland before instigating the (*) War of the Knives. Paul Robeson portrayed a leader of this country in an independence play. The French Revolutionary ideals of liberty and equality “meant far more” to the Black Jacobins of this country, according to C. L. R. James. For 10 points, name this Caribbean country, where Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Toussaint L’Ouverture led a successful slave revolt against France.
Republic of Haiti
Iain Douglas-Hamilton founded a nonprofit organization to counter the sale of this commodity, which is measured by CITES using the MIKE program. Daniel arap Moi symbolically lit fifteen tons of this commodity on fire in 1989. 70% of this commodity, acquired despite the Accra Declaration, goes to China, where it is believed to cure disease. Sale of this commodity (*) threatens two of the members of the Big Five. Kruger National Park maintains a store of this commodity after its sale was banned internationally in the 90s. For 10 points, name this commodity called “white gold,” which is harvested by poachers from elephants.
Ivory (elephant tusks)
It isn’t bronze, but this material is the primary component of the mask of Queen Mother Idia, an artifact that the British Museum came to possess following Harry Rawson’s 1897 punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin. After WWII, the Japanese bought large amounts of this material to make hankos, a form of personalized seal. The Kongo Kingdom produced numerous olifants out of this material, which was the main substance utilized for (*) carving on the Loango Coast. Jim Nyamu advocates against the sale of this substance, which had 5% of its global stock destroyed in a massive 2016 bonfire led by Uhuru Kenyatta. For 10 points, name this hard, white material that has fomented much controversy due to it’s being harvested from elephant tusks.
Ivory
The rise of one dynasty in this kingdom reduced the importance of its trading post of Naukratis. The first ruler of one of this kingdom’s dynasties seized a corpse that was being escorted by Perdiccas. Zenodotus was the first head of an institution founded in this kingdom. The first ruler of one of its dynasties earned the nickname “savior” for relieving a siege of Rhodes by Demetrius Poliorcetes. A (*) landmark in this kingdom stood over 120 meters tall, was destroyed by earthquakes in the Middle Ages, and was built on the island of Pharos. This kingdom was absorbed into a Roman province following the death, supposedly by asp bite, of a woman who was defeated at the Battle of Actium. For 10 points, name this kingdom ruled over by Ptolemy I and Cleopatra.
Egypt
This kingdom nearly bankrupted itself after using most of its treasury making weapons for the Greek general Chabrias [khab-REE-as]. Herodotus [heh-ROD-ot-us] notes that soldiers from this kingdom ambushed an invading force at a location called the “White Castle” during the Siege of Pampremis. This kingdom was destroyed after its Carian mercenaries defected to an invading force, leading to the defeat of (*) Psamtik III. Alexander the Great was portrayed as the son of a leader of this kingdom named Nectanebo after he visited an oracle at its Siwa Oasis. One queen of this kingdom led an expedition which brought back gold and ebony from the Land of Punt. For 10 points, name this ancient state whose New Kingdom period included such rulers as Thutmose III and Hatshepsut [hat-SHEP-soot].
Egypt
For inadequate response to people in this profession, Diane Deans was voted out as chair of a police board. At a hearing involving several people who claimed to represent this profession, Dwayne Lich was chastised by Judge Julie Bourgeois for invoking First Amendment rights. Chris Barber and B.J. Dichter were also arrested for actions involving a group of people in this profession, who in February 2022 were targeted by a rare invocation of the Emergencies Act after a long demonstration against COVID vaccine mandates. For 10 points, Justin Trudeau ended a blockade of Ottawa streets by people claiming to speak for what profession as a “Freedom Convoy?”
truckers
This country acquired a border with Denmark in June 2022 to resolve the Whisky War. In 2021,this country released a Chinese national nicknamed the “Princess of Huawei [WAH-way].” Pope Francis visited this country in July 2022 to apologize after mass graves were found at some of its indigenous (*) residential schools. This country’s New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh discussed a “pattern of behavior” when a yearbook photo emerged of this country’s PM in blackface. This country’s capital was the site of “Freedom Convoy”protests by truckers over vaccine mandates. For 10 points, name this Commonwealth country led by Justin Trudeau.
Canada
This modern day state contains the rock churches of Lalibela, built by the Zagwe Dynasty. The treaty of Wuchale was signed by this country, and it was ruled by the Communist(+) Derg Regime after they overthrew its monarchy. An obelisk in the north of this country called King Ezana’s Stela was built by the(+) Axumites, and this modern country was victorious against Oreste Baratieri at the battle of Adowa. This kingdom won a war against Italy under Menelik II, but their monarchy concluded after the overthrow of Haile Sellasie. For 10 points, name this East African nation with capital at Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia
An admiral from this modern-day country captured a fort off the coast of Murūḍ by hiding his men in boxes of silk and wine. A military leader born in this modern country designed the innovative neher aqueducts of the city where Aurangzeb is buried. A noble from this modern country sparked rumors by allegedly lifting a ruler onto her horse by her armpits; that alleged lover of Razia Sultāna from this modern-day country was Jamāl-ud-Din (*) Yāqut. A politician born in this modern country founded Aurangābād while regent of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate and was named Malik Ambar. This modern [emphasize] landlocked country was the home of the ancestors of the Siddī ethnic group, who are also known by the term habshi, deriving from the former Arabic name for this country. For 10 points, many of premodern India’s slaves came from what country formerly called Abyssinia?
Ethiopia
This conflict saw action by the veerangini women’s battalion, whose leader killed more than 30 soldiers during it and is now celebrated by the Passi (“puhs-see”) community. Following this conflict, William Muir wrote a report disproving rumors of the torture and rape of European women that supposedly occurred during it. Over 200 women were massacred in the Bibighar and their bodies thrown into a well during this conflict’s Siege of (*) Kanpur. Prior to this conflict, one side used the Doctrine of Lapse to justify seizing Jhansi, which was heroically defended by Lakshmibai during it. Many women joined this conflict to help soldiers offended by grease used in Enfield Rifles. For 10 points, name this 1857 revolt against the British East India Company.
Sepoy Mutiny
The Siege of Cawnpore during this conflict was led by Nana Saheb, who sought to restore the Maratha Confederacy. This conflict was instigated in part due to hatred of the Doctrine of Lapse and the execution of Mangal Pandey. Colin Campbell helped to relieve a siege of (*) Lucknow during this revolt, which started with rumors that cartridges for Enfield rifles were greased in pig fat. For 10 points, name this revolt which led to the dissolution of the British East India Company and establishment of the British Raj.
Sepoy Mutiny
