The Age of Imperialism - Chapter 27

Question 1

Use of Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution to explain human societies

Answer 1

Social Darwinism

Question 2

Dutch colonist in South Africa

Answer 2

Boer

Question 3

Zulu chief who created large centralized state

Answer 3

Shaka

Question 4

Governing in a “parental” way by providing for needs but not giving rights

Answer 4

paternalism

Question 5

Southeast Asian mainland and islands along the rim of the Pacific Ocean

Answer 5

Pacific Rim

Question 6

War between the British and the Boers

Answer 6

Boer War

Question 7

British rule over India from 1757 to 1947.

Answer 7

Raj

Question 8

Interest in or taking of land for its location or products

Answer 8

geopolitics

Question 9

Adding of territory

Answer 9

annexation

Question 10

Term referring to India as the most valuable of all British colonies

Answer 10

“jewel in the crown”

Question 11

Belief that one race i superior to others

Answer 11

racism

Question 12

King who helped Siam modernize

Answer 12

King Mongkut

Question 13

Meeting at which Europeans agreed on rules foe colonizing Africa

Answer 13

Berlin Conference

Question 14

Indian soldier under British command

Answer 14

sepoy

Question 15

Uprising of Indian soldiers against the British

Answer 15

Sepoy Mutiny

Question 16

Leader of Ethiopian resistance

Answer 16

Menelik II

Question 17

Last Hawaiian ruler of Hawaii

Answer 17

Queen Liliuokalani

Question 18

Conflict in which the Ottoman Empire halted Russian expansion near the Black Sea

Answer 18

Crimean War

Question 19

Control by a stron nation over a weaker nation

Answer 19

imperialism

Question 20

Human-made waterway connecting the Red and Mediterranean Seas

Answer 20

Suez Canal

Question 21

Absorbing colonized people into the culture imperialist nation

Answer 21

assimilation

Question 22

Leader of Filipino nationalists

Answer 22

Emilio Aguinaldo