What is it now?
Cape Colony
What is South Africa?
To advocate for the interests of one's own country sometimes to the detriment of other nations.
What is Nationalism?
Built in 1869 to reduce distance between Europe and Asia.
What is the Suez Canal?
Famous British Penal Colony.
What is Australia?
He owned the Congo Free State.
Who was Leopold II of Belgium?
This British Company essentially took physical control over parts of India, encroaching on the Mughal Empire.
What is the East India Company?
Ceylon.
What is Sri Lanka?
To establish overseas empires.
What is Imperialism?
Meeting in 1884-5 to divide up African amongst European powers.
What is the Berlin Conference?
In demand natural resource in Congo Free State.
What are ivory and rubber?
Who was the first European Monarch to own the Tavernier Blue?
Who is Louis XIV?
One Territory gained by the United States in the Spanish-American War.
What are Guam, Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico?
Formosa
What is Taiwan?
A type of taxation system, used to build the Suez Canal, in which forced work paid taxes.
What is corvee labor?
Cultural artifacts stolen in the British invasion of West Africa in 1897.
What are the Benin Bronzes?
These people were descendents of the first Dutch settlers of Southern Africa.
Who were the Afrikaners?
Who wrote the White Man's Burden?
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
Estimated Number of Deaths in the Belgian Congo under Leopold II.
What is 10 million?
Abyssinia
What is Ethiopia?
The successful spread of European and American Empires as superior societies supported this theory.
What is Social Darwinism?
What was the Congo Free State?
Weapon that was used to subdue the Zulu.
What is the maxim gun?
The English addicted the Chinese to opium because they needed more of this...
What is Silver?
This conflict was caused by the destruction of smuggled English Goods in Canton.
What are the Opium Wars?
Siam
What is Thailand?
Psuedoscience of studying skull sizes and shapes to determine intelligence and character.
What is Phrenology?
This new medicine reduced the mortality of Europeans living in tropical zones.
What is quinine?
What rifle started the Sepoy Mutiny?
What was the Enfield Rifle?
Name of Red "Spinel" given to Queen Victoria after being confiscated from India.
What is the Timur Ruby?
Group/Nationality that assassinated the last Viceroy of India.
Who is the Irish Republican Army?
German Southwest Africa.
What is Namibia?
Who were the sepoys?
She published photographs that helped to expose Leopold II and the horrors of the Congo.
Who is Alice Seeley Harris?
One of two territories established by the Boers as they left South Africa.
What is the Transvaal Republic and/or the Orange Free State?
She was the Indian Queen that fought the British in the first war of Indian Independence.
Who is the Rani of Jhansi?
Two wars fought between the British and the Afrikaners. (1880-1, 1899-1901)
What were the Boer Wars?