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Wrote about the interior of Africa while traveling as a missionary and sparked European curiosity of the continent.
Who was David Livingstone?
Britain was rich in this resource, which was found underground in large quantities and could be burned for fuel.
What is coal?
This continent became almost totally colonized by foreign powers.
What is Africa?
Rudyard Kipling wrote this poem promoting the idea that it was the responsibility of white Europeans to help other cultures develop and 'catch up'.
What is the White Man's Burden?
Tokugawa Shogunate ends and the Meiji Restoration begins?
What is Japan?
Ruler of Belgium who ran the Congo area and its rubber sap economy very cruelly.
Who was King Leopold II of Belgium?
This British invention allowed for mass transport of goods and people.
What are trains or locomotives?
What is Europe?
The real cause of Imperialism.
What is the Industrial Revolution or Industrialization?
Nation that fell victim to colonial Belgium and their harsh rubber quotas that sometimes resulted in hands being chopped off and other human rights violations.
What is the Congo or Democratic Republic of the Congo?
This French leader gave up on his colonies in the New World when he sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States.
Who is Napoleon?
Britain is credited as the location where this movement of mass production, machinery and factories first started.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Island nation that sought new lands after starting the Meiji Restoration.
What is Japan?
What is the Suez Canal?
Nation that built the Suez Canal before losing it to Britain.
What is Egypt?
British man who promoted the idea of British superiority and called for the colonization of much of Africa.
Who was Cecil Rhodes?
This became the "Crown Jewel" in the British Empire.
What is India?
French colony along the South Eastern Asian Peninsula that later became a Cold War hotspot involving the United States.
What is Vietnam?
The British Raj was when Great Britain took direct control over this nation and sent in thousands of its soldiers to keep order.
What is India?
Country that sailed into Tokyo harbor and convinced the Japanese to open up to trade with the world.
What is the United States?
This Japanese leader changed his name from Mutsuhito to this, which is also reflected in the name of the period when Japan industrialized and modernized.
Who was Meiji, or Meiji Restoration?
Britain unethically imported opium into this nation in an effort to gain trade access to it.
What is China?
Waterway near Singapore that shields vessels from the Indian Ocean and is a major shipping channel.
What is the Strait of Malacca?
European countries developed their own areas in China and the far east where they controlled trade, often known as these.
What are Spheres of Influence?
Country that lost the Russo-Japanese War.
What is Russia?