Missionaries Explorers Administrators

Question 1

David livingstone

Answer 1

• lectures at cambridge + book on travels in 1857
• went missing trying to find source of the nile. Found by henry stanley in 1871, died a martyr
• He wrote 2000 letters back to the british public that captured their imaginations
• found and named victoria falls in 1855
  He provided inspiration to public and explorers

Question 2

Sir Richard Burton

Answer 2

• famous for stories of muslim lives
• daring visits to arabian cities eg Mecca where no westerners had been
• produced translations of 16 volume edition of arabian nights in 1888
• books describing west africa tribal rituals

Question 3

John Hanning Speke

Answer 3

• From 1857-1860, Speke and Burton searched for the source of the nile, advertising the scientific, exploratory, and heroic nature of empire
• Named lake victoria after the crown

Question 4

Missionaries

Answer 4

• set up churches
• staked claim to territories and extending reach
• civilising mission
• Britain is an anglican country

Question 5

Cecil rhodes

Answer 5

• Owned all of south africas diamond mines
• british south africa company, royal charter in 1889
• forced indigenous tribes out to make way for development
• rhodesia

Question 6

George Goldie

Answer 6

• united african company
• signed treaties with tribe chiefs
• secured over 450
  Britain able to get protectorate over nigeria at berlin conference, giving him charter as Royal Niger Company

Question 7

Baring

Answer 7

• approved the dufferin report (highlighted major crisis in egypt finances and administration)
• this asserted need for british reforms
• he established veiled protectorate

Question 8

Bartle frere

Answer 8

• 1878 deliberately provoked war with the zulus, who he saw as obstacle to confederation
• ended in british victory but involved shocking defeats of British forces in ISANDHLWANA in 1879
• high cost too
• denounced for acting hastily
• man on the spot!!!!