Far Parts of the World
Bandits known as _______ hid along the roads in Australia, holding up wagons coming from the gold mines
bushrangers
The _____ Mountains run right down the middle of Peru
Andes
The Dutch and British governments both wanted to claim the island of _______
Sumatra
_________ invented a light powered by electricity and then developed a whole system to run these lights
Thomas Edison
______ was the very last emperor of France
Napoleon
Leopold II was king of ______
Belgium
The war between Peru, Bolivia, and Chile was known as the ______ __ ___ ________
War of the Pacific
The people of Acheh fought against the Dutch using ______ warfare, rather than an organized army on a battlefield
guerilla
Before railroads changed the way people kept time, cities all over the world set their own clocks by looking at the ____
sun
____, the third German emperor, was a violent, quarrelsome, quick-tempered bully
Wilhelm II
What did Ned Kelly think about the police in Australia?
He believed that the poor farmers would never be treated fairly and that the government would always side with the rich.
Europe and Egypt celebrated when the ______ Canal was completed in 1869
Suez
Tjoet Njak Dien was a fierce Achenese woman who became known as _______
Ibu Perbu, or The Queen
The Japanese city of Edo was renamed ______ in 1868
Tokyo
What is a constitutional monarchy?
A system of government where the king must follow a written set of laws instead of doing whatever he wants
The years after 1880 became known as The _____ because so many countries were trying to gain control of African land.
Scramble
When Muhammad Ali seized the throne, Egypt was part of the ______ Empire
Ottoman
The Ottoman Empire was ruled by a _______
sultan
What happened at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869?
the first railroad across the United States was completed
What caused the second French Empire to end?
The Prussian capture of Napoleon II
What happened to Bolivia’s coastline after the war with Chile?
Bolivia had to give up its entire coastline and became landlocked
What excuse did the Russian army use to invade the Ottoman Empire?
They said that when Turkey invaded Bulgaria, they killed many Bulgarian Christians, so the Russian Christians had to come in and fight back
What did it mean when time became standardized?
Time began to be kept according to the same rules all across the United States and eventually across the whole world.
Why did the German states not allow Wilhelm to call himself the Emperor of Germany?
Because none of the German states wanted to belong to a country called “Germany”