African Kingdoms
This West African Empire included Timbuktu and became an important cultural center because of trade.
What is Songhai?
After conquering Constantinople, this empire renamed the city Istanbul.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Issued in 1823, this policy warned European countries against future colonization in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This form of imperialism is a territory governed internally by a foreign country.
What is a colony?
Songhai and Asante based important parts of their economies on trading these two things.
What are gold and enslaved people?
Songhai an Asante traded gold and enslaved people across this major desert.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This famous building represents the art and architecture of the Mughal Empire.
What is the Taj Mahal?
This former slave led the Haitian rebellion and defeated armies from Spain, France, and Britain.
Who is Toussaint L’Ouverture?
Started by the French and taken over by the English, this waterway made European shipping easier.
What is the Suez Canal?
The Ottoman and Mughal governments were centralized bureaucracies, but their rulers used these two different titles.
Who are a sultan and an emperor?
Portuguese missionaries converted the rulers and eventually the entire kingdom of this Central African society to Christianity.
What is Kongo?
China created these special areas to control European trade and limit contact with Chinese people.
What are foreign enclaves?
This revolutionary leader helped liberate the northern areas of Latin America.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This form of imperialism allows a territory to keep its internal government while remaining under an outside power’s control.
What is a protectorate?
This British territory began as a penal colony and later supplied Britain with resources.
What is Australia?
This West African Society created a unified government under one leader and became militaristic because of outside threats.
What is Asante, or Ashanti?
This military leader held the real power in Tokugawa Japan while the emperor had little power.
Who is the shogun?
These two late-1700s revolutions influenced Latin American independence movements.
What are the American and French Revolutions?
These were the two major ways colonized people resisted imperialism.
What are armed conflicts and intellectual or nationalist movements?
This economic change pushed European nations to search for overseas resources and markets, increasing imperialism and eventually nationalism in colonized lands.
What is industrialization, or the Industrial Revolution?
This East African Kingdom had a Christian-centered monarch and traded gold, ivory, and frankincense
What is Ethiopia?
Portugal, England, and the Netherlands established coastal ports here while competing for Indian Ocean trade.
What is the Indian subcontinent?
Name three causes of the Latin American revolutions.
Possible Answers:
Rigid social class system
Centralized colonial rule
Increased nationalism
Educated creole middle class
Enlightenment ideas
Influence of the American and French Revolutions
Industrial nations wanted colonies mainly to obtain these two economic advantages.
What are natural resources and markets?
Japan and China responded to growing European influence in this similar way.
What is attempting to limit foreign influence, contact, or trade?