People and Places
How many African people were present at the meeting that divided up the continent into colonies?
Zero
What nickname was given to the process where European powers rushed to claim portions of Africa?
The Scramble for Africa
True or False: The White Man's Burden views native people as incapable of helping themselves.
True
What is 14 times 5?
70
What trade system lasted for roughly 1500 years and stretched from China to Europe?
The Silk Road
Before Europeans began setting up colonies in Africa, where had most of their colonization been focused?
North and South America
Where was the conference held that divided Africa among European nations?
Berlin
The poem was actually written about which country's colonization in the Philippines?
The United States
What is the plural form of the word "deer"?
Deer
The first Crusades were mainly focused on control of which city?
Jerusalem
King Leopold II was the King of what European nation?
Belgium
What was the only portion of Africa that remained under African control after the continent was divided by Europeans?
The Empire of Ethiopia
Finish the line" "Your new-caught, sullen peoples, half-devil and ________"
Half-Child
What are the large rocks that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter called?
Asteroids
In the Manorial System, who worked on the landlord's land?
Serfs (Peasants)
This person led Ethiopia in successfully resisting colonization by Italy.
Emperor Menelik II
What caused Europeans to shift from seeing Africa as a source of labor to a source of colonies and resources?
The end of the Atlantic Slave Trade
According to the poem, exactly which White Men are supposed to take up the burden?
The best
What is the medical name for the thigh bone?
The Femur
What governmental term describes places like Athens and Sparta?
City-States
Explorer, journalist, and soldier famous for his exploration of the land that would later become the Congo Free State
Henry Morton Stanley
What was unique about the ownership of the Congo Free State?
It was controlled by Leopold II personally, not the nation of Belgium.
White Man's Burden expresses the ideas of this discredited theory that people are subject to the same laws of natural selection as plants and animals
Social Darwinism
What revolutionary leader wrote the influential pamphlet "Common Sense" in 1776?
Thomas Paine
What three-word term do historians give to the transition from hunter-gatherer society to farming?
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution