Imperialist Countries
Leaders of Resistance
Africa
Southeast Asia
Vocabulary
100

They conquered the Malay Peninsula and constructed the Suez Canal.

Who is Great Britain, England, or the British?

100
Tribal leader of the Zulus in South Africa, he resisted the British Empire's take over for most of the 1800's.
Who is Shaka?
100
This reporter originally from the United States worked for King Leopold II, manipulating Congolese tribal chiefs into signing over 400 treaties in favor of Belgium.
Who is Henry Stanley
100
A company supported by the government of the Netherlands, it controlled the islands of Indonesia and its resources.
What is The Dutch East India Company?
100
The systematic killing of an entire people.
What is genocide?
200

They controlled the thousands of islands in Southeast Asia known today as Indonesia, creating a rigid social class system much like feudalism.

Who is The Netherlands or the Dutch?

200
Leader of the country of Siam he made several improvements and changes to keep the French and British out of his region.
Who is King Mongkut
200
Discovery of the ingredient quinine was used in Africa to treat this deadly disease that aided the European take over of the continent.
What is Malaria?
200
The British owned Suez Canal opened in 1869 connected these two bodies of water that made Southeast Asia a prime trading center.
What is the Mediterranean and Red Seas?
200
The lands surrounding the Pacific Ocean especially those in Asia.
What is the Pacific Rim?
300
This country invaded an area they called "Indochina", exporting rice as a main crop, which lead to starvation for many of the natives.
Who is France or the French?
300
Leader of the Philippines he resisted American influence after the Unites States' broken promise for freedom.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
300
This meeting in 1884-85 located in the capital of Germany consisted of the European powers dividing Africa into sections for colonization.
What is The Berlin Conference?
300
The main food source of Southeast Asia, which the French exported from its colonies in Indochina.
What is rice?
300
The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit.
What is annexation?
400

Their war with Spain in the late 1800's led to their imperialist take over of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico

Who is the United States of America or the Americans?

400
Her resistance of the annexation of Hawaii by the United States caused her to lose control of the islands and almost her life.
Queen Liliuokalani
400
Thought to be the 1st "total" modern war, was fought in South Africa between the British Empire and Dutch settlers in the late 1800's.
What was the Boer War?
400
Improvements made by King Mongkut in Siam that modernized his country.
What is built railroads, schools, and made government changes?
400
A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially.
What is Imperialism?
500
King Leopold II of this small European country is responsible for the genocide of an estimated 10 million Congolese people.
What is Belgium?
500
This group of Dutch people living in South Africa disputed over gold and diamonds with the British Empire.
Who are the Boers?
500
A new form of technology that gave the Europeans an edge over the people of Africa.
What is Machine Guns, Steamboats, or Railroads?
500
After the Spanish American War the United States acquired this Caribbean island from Spain, that is still a colony today.
What is Puerto Rico?
500
The application of Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest” to human societies—particularly as justification for imperialist expansion.
What is Social Darwinism?
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