Significant Individuals
He helped to organized the Rough Riders during the Spanish American War.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
He wrote "White Man's Burden"
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
Agricultural products that were not raised for consumption but for sale.
What were Cash Crops?
It is illegal for this museum to give up any pieces in its collection that are not damaged, replicated or not relevant.
What is the British Museum?
She was known as the Grandmother of Europe.
Who was Victoria?
This was opened in 1869 to facilitate trade from Europe to Asia and avoid the unsafe travel around the Cape.
What was the Suez Canal?
This East Asian Nation worked to modernize their nation to compete with European nations.
What was Japan?
He personally owned the Congo Free State.
Who was Leopold II
In 1788, criminals were sent there to form a penal colony.
What is Australia?
Primary natural Resource in the Congo Free State.
What is Rubber?
This item was discovered by Napoleon's troops in Egypt and then taken by the British.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
She exposed the atrocities in the Congo Free State.
Who was Alice Seeley Harris?
The dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland.
What is a diaspora?
Through Modernization and Diplomacy this East Asian Country avoided European Imperialism.
What was Siam?
He was the first Governor of the Cape Colony.
Who was Cecil Rhodes?
The use of animal fats was a precipating factor in this violent and large scale rebellion.
What was the Sepoy Mutiny/Indian Rebellion of 1857?
Key trade item in China that created a massive trade deficit with the British.
What was Tea?
These were taken from Athens by Lord Elgin in 1806 and sold to the British Museum in 1816.
What were the Parthenon Marbles?
She fought to retain the Golden Stool.
Who was Yaa Asentewa?
This was "opened" up for European Countries to create Spheres of Influence.
What is China?
The Shogun were overthrown in Japan and replaced with this.
What was the Meiji Restoration?
He was the First Monarch of the Empire of Japan.
Who was the Meiji Emperor?
He is the personification of Great Britain.
Who is John Bull?
South African Company that controlled the Diamond Industry.
What is DeBeers?
These were taken by the British in its invasion of West Africa in order to finance their invasion of West AFrica.
What are the Benin Bronzes?
She encouraged the boxers to kill westerners in the Boxer Rebellion.
Who was Dowager Empress Cixi?
This Eastern Asian Nation pursued industrialization
What is Japan?
The Taiping Rebellion tried to over throw this dynasty.
What was the Qing?
He burned 21K cases of Opium.
Who was Lin Zexu?
They invaded the Mughal Empire and stole the Peacock Throne.
Who was Nader Shah?
Primary Cash Crop on the Gold Coast of Africa.
What was Cocoa?
Taken by a British Naval Vessel because they thought it was cool from Easter Island.
What is a Moai?
She was the last Queen of Hawaii.
Who was Queen Liliuokalani?
The Dutch East India Company had a trade monopoly here.
What were the Spice Islands? (Indonesia)
The Empress of China ordered the execution of foreigners during this event.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?