Scramble for Africa
This Scottish missionary and explorer was not heard from for years before a NY newspaper reporter tracked him down in the middle of Africa in 1871.
Who was David Livingstone?
The Ethiopian emperor or king who led his nation in securing its independence by defeating Italy at the Battle of Adowa in 1896.
Who was Menelik II?
In losing the Crimean War, this nation failed in its ongoing quest to achieve secure access to the world's oceans through an all-season deep-water port.
What is Russia?
Before 1857 much of India was under the economic control of this company.
What is the British East India Company?
The exceptional Southeast Asian kingdom which maintained its independence and neutrality throughout the 19th century.
What is Siam (or Thailand)?
King Leopold of Belgium hired an explorer to obtain land for him in the vicinity of this central African river.
What is the Congo River?
The status of Egypt within the British empire after 1882.
What is protectorate?
This Ottoman governor is remembered as the Father of modern Egypt for his efforts to modernize the Egyptian economy after breaking free of the Sultan's authority.
Who was Muhammad Ali?
Indian soldiers who served under British officers in colonial India.
What were sepoys?
A person traveling directly from Hawaii to the Philippines would travel in this direction.
What is West?
The so-called "scramble" for Africa led 14 European nations to meet in this city in 1884 to make plans for an orderly division of Africa among themselves.
What is Berlin?
The adoption of the majority culture by members of a minority or conquered people
What is assimilation?
Great Britain had been interested in this nation as a buffer between British India and the Russian Empire before its interest was heightened by the discovery of oil there in 1908.
What is Persia (aka Iran)?
What are two of three large religious groups whose mutual distrust obstructed efforts to shake off British rule in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (aka the Sepoy Mutiny)?
Who were Muslims and Hindus (and/or Sikhs)?
The name of the European country that colonized the Dutch East Indies, which today are known as Indonesia.
What is Holland or the Netherlands?
The British fought with these two groups of people for control of South Africa.
Who were Zulus and Boers?
The policy of treating subject people as if they children, providing for their needs but not giving them rights.
What is paternalism?
In 1830 Greece secured its independence from this multinational empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Founded in 1885, this Indian nationalist group eventually led Indian resistence to British rule which resulted in independence in 1947.
What is the Indian National Congress?
An incident here, thousands of miles away, sparked a war between the United States and Spain that resulted in US possession of the Philippines.
What is Cuba?
This weapon---the world's first automatic machine gun---was invented in 1884 and became one key to European conquests in Africa.
What is the "Maxim" gun?
The imperial power who ruled over Colonial Nigeria.
What is Great Britain?
Which Ottoman sultan was overthrown by Janissaries in 1789 because he had attempted to modernize the Ottoman army (which challenged the elite status of the janissaries)?
Who was Selim III?
The British Empire built the world's third largest network of these in India.
What are railroad lines?
In the 19th and 20th centuries which colonial power ruled over a Indochina, a land which today would cover the modern nations of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos?
What is France?