World Studies test (imperialism)

Question 1

What happens at the Berlin Conference?

Answer 1

Europe divided Africa

Question 2

What is imperialism?

Answer 2

The takeover of a country or territory by a stronger nation.

Question 3

What is a export from Asia

Answer 3

Rice

Question 4

What is a export from Africa

Answer 4

Slaves

Question 5

What is nationalism?

Answer 5

It was a negative impact.

Question 6

What was the Maxim Gun?

Answer 6

It was the first powered machine gun, and it was the deadliest weapon.

Question 7

What was Ethiopia?

Answer 7

It was a country in Africa which fought off Europe and they stayed a free country

Question 8

What is Liberia?

Answer 8

It is a country in Africa which fought off Europe and it stayed a free country.

Question 9

What is Racism?

Answer 9

The belief that white race was superior

Question 10

What are railroads? what were the significances?

Answer 10

It allowed European imperial powers to travel faster through Africa, it was easier to import weapons.

Question 11

What were the steamships

Answer 11

It allowed European imperial powers to navigate upstream through dangerous waters.

Question 12

What was colonization?

Answer 12

The process by which one nation controls a more dependant nation

Question 13

What was the 18th Century

Answer 13

1701-1800

Question 14

What is the 19th Century

Answer 14

1801-1900

Question 15

What is the 20th Century

Answer 15

1901-2000

Question 16

What is the 21st Century

Answer 16

2001-2100

Question 17

What were the motives for Imperialism

Answer 17

Racism, religions, increase empire, national resources, and cheap labor

Question 18

What was the Scramble for Africa?

Answer 18

European countries taking over different country’s in Africa

Question 19

What was Quinine?

Answer 19

It was the medicine used for malaria.

Question 20

What was malaria?

Answer 20

It was the disease carried by mosquitoes

Question 21

what was opium?

Answer 21

They traded it a lot

Question 22

what is Genocide?

Answer 22

Deliberate and synoptic killing of people who belong to a particular racial, ethnic, or control group

Question 23

what is indigenous?

Answer 23

origin or native inhabits of an country or region

Question 24

what is deforestation?

Answer 24

The destruction of forest land

Question 25

What is protectorate

Answer 25

Country within its own government but under the control of an outside power

Question 26

What is paternalistic

Answer 26

The system of governing a country as a father would a child

Question 27

How did the Railroad and Steamships help European countries imperialize Africa?

Answer 27

The railroads helped them travel faster through Africa, As well as it helped them import weapons into Africa. The steamships helped them navigate upstream through dangerous rivers, that was considered impossible to go through.