Scramble for Africa

Question 1

Dr David Livingstone

Answer 1

A Scottish missionary and explorer of Africa

Question 2

Henry Morton Stanley

Answer 2

A Welsh-American explorer famous for his explorations of central Africa

Question 3

King Leopold

Answer 3

King of Belgium, and founder of Congo Free State

Question 4

Pierre Brazza

Answer 4

A French explorer of Italian extraction

Question 5

Khedive

Answer 5

The title used by the governor and ruler of Egypt and the Sudan

Question 6

Wahabbist

Answer 6

Referring to fundamentalist Islamic reform movement founded by Muhammad Ibd Abd al-Wahhab

Question 7

Mahdi

Answer 7

Arabic word meaning the redeemer of Islam. The Sudanese sheikh, Muhhamad Ahmad claimed to be the Mahdi

Question 8

Power vacuum

Answer 8

Territories left undominated by another state after the withdrawal or collapse of the original ruling power

Question 9

General Gordon

Answer 9

British general and Governor General of the Sudan

Question 10

Lord Salisbury

Answer 10

Conservative leader and threee times British Prime Minister

Question 11

General, Lord Kitchener

Answer 11

Defeated the Mahdi in the Sudan and played a key role in the Boer War. Secretary of State for war in 1914-16

Question 12

J.A Hobson

Answer 12

An English socialist, economist and journalist

Question 13

V.I Lenin

Answer 13

Leader of the Russian Bolshevik Party from 1903. In 1917 the Bolsheviks seized power but were then faced with a bitter civil war, which they won under Lenin’s leadership. In 1922-23 Lenin suffered a series of strokes and power passed to Stalin, Zinoviev and Kamenev

Question 14

Cecil Rhodes

Answer 14

British businessman and Prime Minister of Cape Colony, 1890-96, and founder of Rhodesia

Question 15

Condominium

Answer 15

Joint control of a territory by two states

Question 16

Sir George Goldie

Answer 16

Founder of the Royal Niger Company

Question 17

British South African Company

Answer 17

Formed by Cecil Rhodes from the amalgamation of two companies: the Central Search Association and the Explorer Company Ltd.

Question 18

Boer War 1899-1902

Answer 18

Fought between the two Boer states of Transvaal and the Orange Free State and the British Empire

Question 19

Strategic aims

Answer 19

Aims intended to gain military or economic security for a state

Question 20

Boers

Answer 20

Descendants of Dutch settlers who had originally colonized South Africa

Question 21

William Gladstone

Answer 21

Literal politician, who served four terms as Prime Minister

Question 22

Paul Kruger

Answer 22

President of Transvaal

Question 23

Jameson raid

Answer 23

Armed intervention in the Transvaal led by the British politician in Cape Colony, Leander Starr Jameson, over the New Year weekend of 1895-96